In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

ISBN-13: 9780197517789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 440 str.

Assist Jessica (Assistant Professor of Classics and History

Recenzje

This engaging and wide ranging book represents the first historical study of curse practices in the ancient Greek world. Lamont thoroughly examines and contextualizes individual curse tablets, provides new insight into their origins, early dissemination, and diverse local characteristics, and demonstrates the importance of these texts for our understanding of Greek religion, literacy and orality, legal institutions, and social history. This impressive and innovative book will be of interest to scholars of classical literature, history, archaeology, and religious studies.

O autorze

Jessica L. Lamont is Assistant Professor of Classics and History at Yale University.