Curse tablets and binding spells from the ancient world / edited by John G. Gager.

Contributor(s):

Gager, John G

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780198022770
0198022778
9780195350623
0195350626

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Curse tablets and binding spells from the ancient world.DDC classification:

133.4/4 22

LOC classification:

BF1558 .C87 1992eb

Other classification:

11.10
BE 2562
FH 18250
LG 6700
NH 5250
6,15
6,11
6,12

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Contents:

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.

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Summary: 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.

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Original title: Curse tablets and binding spells from antiquity and the ancient world.

Includes index.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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