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Magical practice in the Latin West : papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005 /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 168. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.