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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... location not known. Lead tablet measuring 6 × 4 cm.; written on both sides; originally rolled up and pierced by a nail. The editor gives no date, but it can hardly be later than the second century B.C.E. No deity is invoked and the ...
... location not known. Lead tablet measuring 6 × 4 cm.; written on both sides; originally rolled up and pierced by a nail. The editor gives no date, but it can hardly be later than the second century B.C.E. No deity is invoked and the ...
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... not in its original location), along with a second smaller tablet and other ... known from other tablets and texts. At the end of the text, two unusual ... known from a passage from the sixth-century historian, Procopius (Wars 2.11.31-35) ...
... not in its original location), along with a second smaller tablet and other ... known from other tablets and texts. At the end of the text, two unusual ... known from a passage from the sixth-century historian, Procopius (Wars 2.11.31-35) ...
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... location not known. Lead tablet measuring 8 × 7 cm.; written on both sides. No date given by the editor. The figures invoked are Earth and Hermes. The form of the spell is simple—the target is handed over to the deities for appropriate ...
... location not known. Lead tablet measuring 8 × 7 cm.; written on both sides. No date given by the editor. The figures invoked are Earth and Hermes. The form of the spell is simple—the target is handed over to the deities for appropriate ...
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... location in Athens, portrays sharp enmity between the unnamed client and a ... not be able to speak or walk with one another, nor sit18 in Juliana's place ... knowledge, their passion, their charm,25 their mind, their knowledge, and their ...
... location in Athens, portrays sharp enmity between the unnamed client and a ... not be able to speak or walk with one another, nor sit18 in Juliana's place ... knowledge, their passion, their charm,25 their mind, their knowledge, and their ...
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... location not known. Lead tablet measuring 27 × 3 cm. and originally folded. Wünsch and Wilhelm agree in dating it to the fourth century B.C.E. Like other curse tablets of this period, this one contains no verb but names the target in ...
... location not known. Lead tablet measuring 27 × 3 cm. and originally folded. Wünsch and Wilhelm agree in dating it to the fourth century B.C.E. Like other curse tablets of this period, this one contains no verb but names the target in ...
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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