Performative Adjuration Formula in Greek and Latin Inscriptions

ISBN-13: 9783823385462 / Angielski / Twarda / 363 str.

Juraj Franek; Daniela Urbanová; Ulrike Ehmig

Opis

The edited volume presents the rst comprehensive corpus of performative adjuration formulae collated from Greek and Latin epigraphical sources. The original texts-for the most part artefacts connected with magico-religious beliefs and practices of their users-are all translated into English and accompanied by a philological and socio-religious commentary. The international team of three specialists adopts a synoptic approach that tracks various classes of epigraphic documents to analyse permutations and developments in the syntactic structure of the adjuration formula, and its pragmatic function. This major study of the adjuration formula in Antiquity and its continued tradition in the Middle Ages will be of interest not only to the scholars of these linguistic traditions, but also to researchers working in the elds of Religious Studies, Ancient History, Theology, and Archaeology.

The edited volume presents the first comprehensive corpus of performative adjuration formulae collated from Greek and Latin epigraphical sources. The work will be of interest not only to the scholars of these linguistic traditions, but also to researchers working in the fields of Religious Studies, Ancient History, Theology and Archaeology.

Spis treści

A STUDY1 Introduction2 Adjuration Formula in Literary Sources3 Adjuration Formula in Greek Epigraphy3.1 Amulets3.2 Curse Tablets3.3 Funerary Inscriptions4 Adjuration Formula in Latin Epigraphy4.1 Amulets4.2 Curse Tablets4.3 Funerary Inscriptions4.4.Visigotic slate Tablets5 ConclusionsB CORPUS

O autorze

Juraj Franek, Associate Professor at the Department of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, specializes in Greek epigraphy, early Christian literature and methodological approaches to religious.Daniela Urbanová, Professor at the Department of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, specializes in Ancient magic and Roman epigraphy (especially archaic inscriptions and curse tablets).Ulrike Ehmig is the director of the Corpus Insciptionum Latinarum at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.