TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,R.L.
AU  - Marco Simón,Francisco
ED  - Magical Practice in the Latin-speaking Empire (Late Republic to Late Antiquity)
TI  - Magical practice in the Latin West: papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005 
T2  - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
SN  - 9789047441397
AV  - BF1591 .M3444 2010eb
U1  - 133.4/3094 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Magic
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - history
KW  - Religion
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - Greek World
KW  - Roman World
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Magick Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Witchcraft & Wicca
KW  - fast
KW  - Magie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Magi
KW  - historia
KW  - Europa
KW  - konferenser
KW  - sao
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Westprovinzen
KW  - Congress
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Kongress
KW  - Zaragoza (2005)
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Actes de congrès
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction / Richard Gordon and Francisco Marco Simon -- Part I. The discourse of magic -- Magus and its cognates in classical Latin / James B. Rives -- Magic in the Roman historians / Matthew W. Dickie -- Heretical texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianus (CTh . 16.5.34) / María Victoria Escribano Paño -- Part II. Revising the corpus -- The defixiones from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz / Jürgen Blänsdorf -- Religion and magic at Rome : the Fountain of Anna Perenna / Marina Piranomonte -- The texts from the Fons Annae Perennae / Jürgen Blänsdorf -- Cursing a thief in Iberia and Britain / Roger Tomlin -- Prayers for justice in East and West : recent finds and publications / Henk S. Versnel -- Part III. Writing defixiones : models, language, and aims -- How does magical language work? : the spells and formulae of the Latin defixionum tabellae / Amina Kropp -- Inversion, adversion and perversion as strategies in some Latin curse tablets / Christopher Faraone and Amina Kropp -- Execrating the Roman power : three defixiones from Emporiae (Ampurias) / Francisco Marco Simón -- Part IV. Protective, eudaemonic, and divinatory magic -- Nails for the dead : a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice / Silvia Alfayé Villa -- Magic at sea : amulets for navigation / Sabino Perea Yébenes -- A prayer for blessings on three ritual objects at Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-et-loir) / Richard Gordon, Dominique Joly, and William van Andringa -- Mithraism and magic / Jaime Alvar Ezquerrez -- A visigothic charm from Asturias and the classical tradition of Phylacteries against hail / Francisco Javier Fernandez Nieto -- Between Orthodox belief and "superstition" in Visigothic Hispania / Isabel Velázquez Soriano -- Celtic Loricae and ancient magical charms / Pierre-Yves Lambert
N2  - Most studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for the first time tries to define the nature and extent of the originality of magical practice in the Latin West
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