Performative Adjuration Formula in Greek and Latin Inscriptions

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.

first textual corpus of its kind cross-linguistic comparison of Greek and Latin, available to a wider audience through an English translation of the corpus entries and considering both syntactic and wider socio-cultural and religious aspects of the adjuration formula

Auteur

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.

Contenu
A STUDY 1 Introduction 2 Adjuration Formula in Literary Sources 3 Adjuration Formula in Greek Epigraphy 3.1 Amulets 3.2 Curse Tablets 3.3 Funerary Inscriptions 4 Adjuration Formula in Latin Epigraphy 4.1 Amulets 4.2 Curse Tablets 4.3 Funerary Inscriptions 4.4.Visigotic slate Tablets 5 Conclusions B CORPUS