Curse tablets and binding spells from the ancient world:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1992
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Beschreibung:Original title: Curse tablets and binding spells from antiquity and the ancient world. - Includes index. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Competition in theater and circus -- Sex, love, and marriage -- Tongue-tied in court: legal and political disputes -- Businesses, shops, and taverns -- Please for justice and revenge -- Miscellaneous tablets -- Antidotes and counterspells -- Testimonies
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 278 pages)
ISBN:0195062264
0198022778
9780195062267
9780198022770

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