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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... letters of personal names: Greek kappa remains k, upsilon is rendered as u (rather than the more traditional y), omega becomes ô, and so on. But in the introductions, annotations, and discussions, we have used the Latinized conventions ...
... letters of personal names: Greek kappa remains k, upsilon is rendered as u (rather than the more traditional y), omega becomes ô, and so on. But in the introductions, annotations, and discussions, we have used the Latinized conventions ...
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... letters in the original text; in general we have not specified the exact number of missing letters. Parentheses indicate interpretive expansions or clarifications of the original text. Square brackets are used to enclose letters not ...
... letters in the original text; in general we have not specified the exact number of missing letters. Parentheses indicate interpretive expansions or clarifications of the original text. Square brackets are used to enclose letters not ...
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... letters mistakenly repeated in the original text. <> Angle brackets indicate letters or words mistakenly omitted by the ancient author. All measurements of defixiones give width first, followed by height, both in centimeters. Curse ...
... letters mistakenly repeated in the original text. <> Angle brackets indicate letters or words mistakenly omitted by the ancient author. All measurements of defixiones give width first, followed by height, both in centimeters. Curse ...
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... letters, a professional scribe or the private individual seeking to enact the spell. We may begin with three observations. First, the range of skill exhibited on tablets is quite broad, with large, awkward letters on one extreme and ...
... letters, a professional scribe or the private individual seeking to enact the spell. We may begin with three observations. First, the range of skill exhibited on tablets is quite broad, with large, awkward letters on one extreme and ...
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... letters facing in the proper direction. Such techniques clearly express a symbolic meaning like that attributed to the lead of the tablets themselves, that the fate of the targets should turn backward or be scrambled, just like their ...
... letters facing in the proper direction. Such techniques clearly express a symbolic meaning like that attributed to the lead of the tablets themselves, that the fate of the targets should turn backward or be scrambled, just like their ...
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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