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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... Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile (Rome, 1989) C. A. Faraone, “The Agonistic Context of Early Greek BindingSpells,” in Magika, pp. 3–32 The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Including the Demotic Spells, ed. H. D. Betz ...
... Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile (Rome, 1989) C. A. Faraone, “The Agonistic Context of Early Greek BindingSpells,” in Magika, pp. 3–32 The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Including the Demotic Spells, ed. H. D. Betz ...
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... Inscriptions,” The Annual of the British School at Athens 50 (1955): 69–76 Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Instituts D. R. Jordan, “Defixiones from a Well near the Southwest Corner of the Athenian Agora,” Hesperia 54 ...
... Inscriptions,” The Annual of the British School at Athens 50 (1955): 69–76 Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Instituts D. R. Jordan, “Defixiones from a Well near the Southwest Corner of the Athenian Agora,” Hesperia 54 ...
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... Inscriptions grecques (Paris, 1936) Sepher ha-Razim. The Book of Mysteries, ed. M. A. Morgan (Chico, 1983) Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. References are by volume number and number of inscription within the volume, such as SEG 14.3 ...
... Inscriptions grecques (Paris, 1936) Sepher ha-Razim. The Book of Mysteries, ed. M. A. Morgan (Chico, 1983) Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. References are by volume number and number of inscription within the volume, such as SEG 14.3 ...
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... 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 city of Miletus and ...
... 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 city of Miletus and ...
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... question of who made the inscriptions on the tablets, this one concerns and shapes our understanding of the total process. Unfortunately, there is little direct evidence to suggest an answer one way or another. In some cases, the ...
... question of who made the inscriptions on the tablets, this one concerns and shapes our understanding of the total process. Unfortunately, there is little direct evidence to suggest an answer one way or another. In some cases, 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