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On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5 (2014)
Journal Article
Petrovic, A., & Petrovic, I. (2014). On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5. Gephyra, 11, 29-35

This paper focuses on the request not to look at breast-fed children attested at the beginning of the cathartic regulation from the sanctuary of Athena Lindia in Rhodes (I.Lindos II 487 = LSS 91). We highlight uniqueness of visual taboos in extant Gr... Read More about On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5.

Pharmakeutria ohne pharmakon. Ueberlegungen zur Komposition des zweiten Idylls von Theokrit (2004)
Journal Article
Petrovic, I. (2004). Pharmakeutria ohne pharmakon. Ueberlegungen zur Komposition des zweiten Idylls von Theokrit. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 57(4), 421-444. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525042226084

In the first part of the article, the question of Theocritus' treatment of magic in the 2nd Idyll is being discussed. The author's view is that Theocritus not only accurately depicted the contemporary magical practices, but that the very composition... Read More about Pharmakeutria ohne pharmakon. Ueberlegungen zur Komposition des zweiten Idylls von Theokrit.