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Sylloge of Defixiones from the Roman West (Volumes I and II): A comprehensive collection of curse tablets from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE

Sylloge of Defixiones from the Roman West (Volumes I and II): A comprehensive collection of curse tablets from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE
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  • Type Paperback
  • Publisher ARCHAEOPRESS
  • Author/s Sánchez Natalías, Celia
  • ISBN13 9781407315324
  • ISBN10 1407315323
  • Pages 600
  • Published 2022
  • Language English
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Defixiones, also known as curse tablets, are one of the most revealing sources for ancient magico-religious practices. Born of rancour, anger, desire, love, envy, or just out of desperation, curse tablets were a strategy for obtaining ‘individual justice’ for those who could not accomplish their purposes through the available means, due to a lack of knowledge, power or legal/economical resources. In this volume, the reader will find a detailed catalogue that discusses 535 curse tablets written in Latin and a wide range of local languages. The catalogue is preceded by a full introduction in which the main features of these inscriptions are discussed together with leading scholarship. Such a detailed yet global study of these texts sheds light on various aspects of curses that vary on a regional basis, thus showing how this magico-religious technology was not only adopted but also adapted in new and creative ways by the local populations throughout the Roman West.

  • Type Paperback
  • Publisher ARCHAEOPRESS
  • Author/s Sánchez Natalías, Celia
  • ISBN13 9781407315324
  • ISBN10 1407315323
  • Pages 600
  • Published 2022
  • Language English