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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... ephesia grammata, first attested in a fragment of Anaxilas, a comic poet of the fourth century B.C.E.: “(an unnamed person). . . carries around marvelous Ephesian letters in sewn pouches.”29 These terms (askion, kataskion, lix, tetrax ...
... ephesia grammata, first attested in a fragment of Anaxilas, a comic poet of the fourth century B.C.E.: “(an unnamed person). . . carries around marvelous Ephesian letters in sewn pouches.”29 These terms (askion, kataskion, lix, tetrax ...
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... ephesia grammata: aski and kataski (lines 9–10), lix (lines 5 and 10), forms of tetrax (lines 5, 1112), and damnameneus (line 16).33 A second exception is a curious stone monument from Greece, dating to the late fifth century B.C.E. ...
... ephesia grammata: aski and kataski (lines 9–10), lix (lines 5 and 10), forms of tetrax (lines 5, 1112), and damnameneus (line 16).33 A second exception is a curious stone monument from Greece, dating to the late fifth century B.C.E. ...
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... ephesia grammata occupy no more than a line or two; 2. the names and invocations of the gods and spirits are notably longer, more complex, and aggressively international in the later examples; 3. drawings of human and animal figures ...
... ephesia grammata occupy no more than a line or two; 2. the names and invocations of the gods and spirits are notably longer, more complex, and aggressively international in the later examples; 3. drawings of human and animal figures ...
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... ephesia grammata are addressed as powers in their own right: they have become the names of supernatural entities, just as the later voces mysticae come to function as the secret and powerful names of the gods invoked in the spells.38 ...
... ephesia grammata are addressed as powers in their own right: they have become the names of supernatural entities, just as the later voces mysticae come to function as the secret and powerful names of the gods invoked in the spells.38 ...
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... Ephesia Grammata in Popular Belief,” TAPA 54 (1923): 128–40; Jeffery, pp. 75–76; K. Preisendanz, “Ephesia Grammata,” RAC V (1962), cols. 515–20; and Kotansky, “Incantations,” pp. 111–12. 30. A similar phenomenon, dating from ...
... Ephesia Grammata in Popular Belief,” TAPA 54 (1923): 128–40; Jeffery, pp. 75–76; K. Preisendanz, “Ephesia Grammata,” RAC V (1962), cols. 515–20; and Kotansky, “Incantations,” pp. 111–12. 30. A similar phenomenon, dating from ...
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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