Magic
<p>The study of <b >magic in the Greco-Roman world</b> is a branch of the disciplines of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics" title="Classics" >classics</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history" title="Ancient history" >ancient history</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_studies" title="Religious studies" >religious studies</a>. In the ancient post-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic" title="Hellenistic" class="mw-redirect" >hellenistic</a> world of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece" >Greeks</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome" >Romans</a> (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman" title="Greco-Roman" class="mw-redirect" >Greco-Roman</a> world), the public and private <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituals" title="Rituals" class="mw-redirect" >rituals</a> associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion" title="Religion" >religion</a> are accepted by historians and archaeologists to have been a part of everyday life. Examples of this phenomenon are found in the various state and cult <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temples" title="Temples" class="mw-redirect" >Temples</a>, Jewish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogues" title="Synagogues" class="mw-redirect" >Synagogues</a> and in the early <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" title="Christian" >Christian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedrals" title="Cathedrals" class="mw-redirect" >cathedrals</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church(building)" title="Church (building)" >churches</a>. These were important hubs for the ancient peoples of the Greco-Roman world that were representative of a connection between the heavenly realms (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity" >divine</a>) and the earthly planes (the dwelling place of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_race" title="Human race" class="mw-redirect" >humanity</a>). This context of magic has become an academic study especially in the last twenty years.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_in_the_Greco-Roman_world#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup><b> </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic(paranormal)" title="Magic (paranormal)" ><b>Magic</b></a><b> </b><b>is generally seen as "any attempt to control the environment or the self by means that are either untested or untestable, such as charms or spells."</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_in_the_Greco-Roman_world#cite_note-1" ><b>[</b><b>2</b><b>]</b></a></sup></p>