UID:
almahu_9949703908302882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 676 pages, [28] pages of plates) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789047441397
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 168
Content:
How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. Magus And Its Cognates In Classical Latin /
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Chapter Two. Magic In The Roman Historians /
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Chapter Three. Heretical Texts And Maleficium In The Codex Theodosianus (Cth. 16.5.34) /
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Chapter Four. The Defixiones From The Sanctuary Of Isis And Mater Magna In Mainz /
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Chapter Five. Religion And Magic At Rome: The Fountain Of Anna Perenna /
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Chapter Six. The Texts From The Fons Annae Perennae /
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Chapter Seven. Cursing A Thief In Iberia And Britain /
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Chapter Eight. Prayers For Justice, East And West: New Finds And Publications Since 1990 /
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Chapter Nine. How Does Magical Language Work? The Spells And Formulae Of The Latin Defixionum Tabellae /
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Chapter Ten. Inversion, Adversion And Perversion As Strategies In Latin Curse-Tablets /
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Chapter Eleven. Execrating The Roman Power: Three Defixiones From Emporiae (Ampurias) /
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Chapter Twelve. Nails For The Dead: A Polysemic Account Of An Ancient Funerary Practice /
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Chapter Thirteen. Magic At Sea: Amulets For Navigation /
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Chapter Fourteen. A Prayer For Blessings On Three Ritual Objects Discovered At Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-Et Loir) /
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Chapter Fifteen. Mithraism And Magic /
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Chapter Sixteen. A Visigothic Charm From Asturias And The Classical Tradition Of Phylacteries Against Hail /
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Chapter Seventeen. Between Orthodox Belief And 'Superstition' In Visigothic Hispania /
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Chapter Eighteen. Celtic Loricae And Ancient Magical Charms /
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General Index /
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Select Index Of Texts And Documents Cited /
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Index Of Latin Words /
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Select Index Of Greek Words /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Magical Practice in the Latin-speaking Empire (Late Republic to Late Antiquity) (2005 : University of Zaragoza). Magical practice in the Latin West. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 ISBN 9789004179042
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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