Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic who performed
it ¿ and why. Magic was everywhere in the ancient world. The supernatural abounded turning
flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. Magic packed a cloud of water vapour with
energy enough to destroy a house with one well-aimed thunderbolt. It was everyday magic but it
was still magical. Philip Matyszak takes readers into that world. He shows us how to make a
love potion or cast a curse how to talk to the dead and how to identify and protect oneself
from evil spirits. He takes us to a world where gods like humans were creatures of space and
time where people could not just talk to spirits and deities but could even themselves become
divine and where divine beings could fall from ¿ or be promoted to ¿ full godhood. Ancient
Magic offers us a new way of understanding the role of magic looking at its history in all of
its classical forms. Drawing on a wide array of sources from Greek dramas to curse tablets
lavishly illustrated throughout and packed with information surprises lore and learning
this book offers an engaging and accessible way into the supernatural for all.