Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient WorldJohn G. Gager Oxford University Press, 28 de out. de 1999 - 296 páginas In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into every aspect of ancient life--athletic and theatrical competitions, judicial proceedings, love affairs, business rivalries, and the recovery of stolen property--they shed light on a new dimension of classical study previously inaccessible. Here, for the first time, these texts have been translated into English with a substantial translator's introduction revealing the cultural, social, and historical context for the texts. This book will interest historians, classicists, scholars of religion, and those concerned with ancient magic. |
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... Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian (Ann Arbor, 1950) Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ed. T. Kock of the common era CIL CMRDM Davies, Families Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Corpus Monumentorum Religionis Abbreviations and Conventions.
... Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian (Ann Arbor, 1950) Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ed. T. Kock of the common era CIL CMRDM Davies, Families Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Corpus Monumentorum Religionis Abbreviations and Conventions.
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... Egyptian Archaeology L. H. Jeffery, “Further Comments on Archaic Greek Inscriptions,” The Annual of the British School at Athens 50 (1955): 69–76 Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Instituts D. R. Jordan, “Defixiones from ...
... Egyptian Archaeology L. H. Jeffery, “Further Comments on Archaic Greek Inscriptions,” The Annual of the British School at Athens 50 (1955): 69–76 Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Instituts D. R. Jordan, “Defixiones from ...
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... Egypt (P. Mich. 757) (Atlanta, 1991) J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls. Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (Jerusalem, 1985) Prosopographia Attica, ed. J. Kirchner (Berlin, 1901/1903) spells in Demotic, often with ...
... Egypt (P. Mich. 757) (Atlanta, 1991) J. Naveh and S. Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls. Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (Jerusalem, 1985) Prosopographia Attica, ed. J. Kirchner (Berlin, 1901/1903) spells in Demotic, often with ...
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... Egypt and thus reveal the fusion of Greek, Egyptian, and other cultures typical of Egypt from the first century C.E. onward; among these Egyptian elements, one of the most notable is the use of threats against the gods.36 And yet we ...
... Egypt and thus reveal the fusion of Greek, Egyptian, and other cultures typical of Egypt from the first century C.E. onward; among these Egyptian elements, one of the most notable is the use of threats against the gods.36 And yet we ...
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... Egyptian and Coptic), this finding is quite irrelevant to understanding the attitudes of those who purchased the tablets. For the anxious client, what mattered was the belief that the magos possessed the special knowledge to get these ...
... Egyptian and Coptic), this finding is quite irrelevant to understanding the attitudes of those who purchased the tablets. For the anxious client, what mattered was the belief that the magos possessed the special knowledge to get these ...
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Legal and Political Disputes | 25 |
Businesses Shops and Taverns | 25 |
Pleas for Justice and Revenge | 25 |
Miscellaneous Tablets | 25 |
Antidotes and Counterspells | 25 |
Testimonies | 52 |
Glossary of Uncommon Words | 84 |
Index | 3 |
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ABRASAX Agora amulets ancient angels appears Aramaic Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attica Audollent Bibl binding spells bowl Cairo Geniza charaktêres Charias chariot Christian client common Context curse tablets D. R. Jordan daimones defixiones deity Demeter deposited discussion Egypt Egyptian ephesia grammata Faraone figures figurine Fluchtafeln formulas fourth century B.C.E. gave birth goddess gods grave Greece Greek term hands Hebrew Hekate Hermes holy horses IAÔ Incantations inscribed inscription invoke Jewish Kerameikos Latin Lead tablet measuring letters lines location not known Lord love spells Magic Magika mentioned nail names one’s original location Osiris palindrome papyri Peiraeus Persephone person Picatrix Preisendanz probably professional racing recipes reference ritual Roman Rome second century C.E. Sethian Side sixth century C.E. slaves soul spirits target third century C.E. Tomlin tongue translation trierarch underworld verb Versnel voces mysticae woman words Wortmann written Wünsch Ziebarth