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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... appear in a public inscription on the wall of the theater at Miletus, where each of seven charaktêres is associated with two sets of vowels: under each set of charaktêres and vowels appears the following request, “Holy One, protect the ...
... appear in a public inscription on the wall of the theater at Miletus, where each of seven charaktêres is associated with two sets of vowels: under each set of charaktêres and vowels appears the following request, “Holy One, protect the ...
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... appears in early spells; the practice was taken over from the world of slaves, who were regularly identified by matrilineal descent; and in Egypt, Jewish and Christian funerary monuments sometimes identify the deceased by descent from ...
... appears in early spells; the practice was taken over from the world of slaves, who were regularly identified by matrilineal descent; and in Egypt, Jewish and Christian funerary monuments sometimes identify the deceased by descent from ...
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... appear to have been deliberately mutilated78 (Figure 2). Frequently the name of the target was inscribed on the figurine.79 The first type of figurine, which appears in love/sex spells, represents the desired object of one's affections ...
... appear to have been deliberately mutilated78 (Figure 2). Frequently the name of the target was inscribed on the figurine.79 The first type of figurine, which appears in love/sex spells, represents the desired object of one's affections ...
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... appears the following recipe for an amulet against fevers: “take the stone and inscribe on it an erect headless spirit with its hands and feet bound behind; and around it write these signs and on the back the preceding names . . . wear ...
... appears the following recipe for an amulet against fevers: “take the stone and inscribe on it an erect headless spirit with its hands and feet bound behind; and around it write these signs and on the back the preceding names . . . wear ...
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... appear. Latin tablets used other terms, e.g., devotio, donatio, or commonitorium; see the discussion in Tomlin, p. 59. Jordan notes in a private communication that katadesmos appears to derive from the idea of binding by rolling the ...
... appear. Latin tablets used other terms, e.g., devotio, donatio, or commonitorium; see the discussion in Tomlin, p. 59. Jordan notes in a private communication that katadesmos appears to derive from the idea of binding by rolling the ...
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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