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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... character of these small metal tablets—not so much the real harm suffered by their ancient targets but the potential harm to the entrenched reputation of classical Greece and Rome, not to mention Judaism and Christianity, as bastions of ...
... character of these small metal tablets—not so much the real harm suffered by their ancient targets but the potential harm to the entrenched reputation of classical Greece and Rome, not to mention Judaism and Christianity, as bastions of ...
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... character of the defixiones themselves. Dolls, Hair, and Nails As complex as the inscribed tablet sometimes appears, especially from the second century C.E. onward, it might require still more preparations before it was ready to leave ...
... character of the defixiones themselves. Dolls, Hair, and Nails As complex as the inscribed tablet sometimes appears, especially from the second century C.E. onward, it might require still more preparations before it was ready to leave ...
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... characters . . . on metal tablets made from bronze, iron, lead or any other material, such a person is not a Christian but a pagan.” Here we may be confronted with a rare instance where ecclesiastical authorities actually succeeded in ...
... characters . . . on metal tablets made from bronze, iron, lead or any other material, such a person is not a Christian but a pagan.” Here we may be confronted with a rare instance where ecclesiastical authorities actually succeeded in ...
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... character so that by the second century B.C.E. the athletic competitors were all professionals; the theatrical events were probably “professional” from the beginning.4 A list of prizes from Athens in the fifth century B.C.E. reveals the ...
... character so that by the second century B.C.E. the athletic competitors were all professionals; the theatrical events were probably “professional” from the beginning.4 A list of prizes from Athens in the fifth century B.C.E. reveals the ...
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... character of even the written spells, it is probably not too much to speculate that the marriage of eros and spells considerably antedates even the Homeric epics. In book 14 of the Iliad (216ff.), Zeus's wife Hera borrows Aphrodite's ...
... character of even the written spells, it is probably not too much to speculate that the marriage of eros and spells considerably antedates even the Homeric epics. In book 14 of the Iliad (216ff.), Zeus's wife Hera borrows Aphrodite's ...
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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