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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... grave for harsh treatment by Osiris.75 Similar dolls were used by Greek cities in public binding ceremonies as early ... graves from the Kerameikos (Athens) and dates from around 400 B.C.E. (Figure 3). The group includes four lead ...
... grave for harsh treatment by Osiris.75 Similar dolls were used by Greek cities in public binding ceremonies as early ... graves from the Kerameikos (Athens) and dates from around 400 B.C.E. (Figure 3). The group includes four lead ...
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... grave from Attica (Greece) and dates to pre-Christian times. It might well have accompanied a defixio (DTA 86) of the same time and place: “I bind Dromôn . . . feet and hands . . .” Hair and Clothing Courtesans (4.4; see pp. 255–56) ...
... grave from Attica (Greece) and dates to pre-Christian times. It might well have accompanied a defixio (DTA 86) of the same time and place: “I bind Dromôn . . . feet and hands . . .” Hair and Clothing Courtesans (4.4; see pp. 255–56) ...
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... graves in the Kerameikos (Athens). Two of the figurines have their hands tied behind their backs; all show exaggerated genitals. Each of the three boxes/coffins and two of the figurines are inscribed with a spell. Such figurines were a ...
... graves in the Kerameikos (Athens). Two of the figurines have their hands tied behind their backs; all show exaggerated genitals. Each of the three boxes/coffins and two of the figurines are inscribed with a spell. Such figurines were a ...
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... graves, which appear to have been the most common place of deposit, have yielded not only the remains of the bodies originally buried in them but defixiones inserted at a later time. Burial sites of those who had died young or by ...
... graves, which appear to have been the most common place of deposit, have yielded not only the remains of the bodies originally buried in them but defixiones inserted at a later time. Burial sites of those who had died young or by ...
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... graves or buried at the starting gates of race courses, the likelihood is much greater that scribes or magoi, or ... grave of a young person, and place the tablet in the corpse's right hand.95 Before leaving the question of where the ...
... graves or buried at the starting gates of race courses, the likelihood is much greater that scribes or magoi, or ... grave of a young person, and place the tablet in the corpse's right hand.95 Before leaving the question of where 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