Magical practice in the Latin West : papers from the international conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2005
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Gordon, R. L.
Marco Simón, Francisco. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxvi, 676 p., [28] p. of plates ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 168 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 26 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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) / Maria Victoria Escribano Pano
- Part II: Revising the corpus
- Th edefixiones from the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz / Jurgen Blansdorf
- Religion and magic at Rome : the Fountain of Anna Perenna / Marina Piranomonte
- The texts from the Fons Annae Perennae / Jurgen Blansdorf
- 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 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 Simon
- Part IV: Protective, eudaemonic, and divinatory magic
- Nails for the dead : a polysemic account of an ancient funerary practice / Silvia Alfaye Villa
- Magic at sea : amulets for navigation / Sabino Perea Yebenes
- 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 Velazquez Soriano
- Celtic Loricae and ancient magical charms / Pierre-Yves Lambert.
