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Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World
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| #600020 in Books | 1999-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.40 x.70 x8.10l,.87 | File type: PDF | 296 pages||16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Important contribution to classical studies|By Christopher R. Travers|In this work, Professor Gager provides a catalog of curse tablets and binding spells from Europe and the Middle East and some fairly impressive analysis of these finds. If you are looking for a systematic analysis of such finds, skip this work. If you are looking for source material and enough analysis to|||"There is ample reason...to be extremely grateful to Gager and his associates for having provided such a rich and accessible collection of these fascinating and culturally important documents."--Bryn Mawr Classical ||"The material is fascinating, an
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 Eng...
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