Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·      competition and cursing

    ·      athletic contexts

    ·      legal contexts

    ·      binding and harming

     

    Greek Readings: Gager # 1, 44, 83, 99, 117, PGM V 304-69, VII 396-404, VII 423-28, VII 429-58, X 36-50

     

    Readings:

    ·      Gager, ch. 1, 3-6 (esp. # 3, 5, 44, 53, 88, 89, 117)

    ·      PGM V 304-69, VII 396-404, VII 423-28, VII 429-58, X 36-50

    ·      Ogden 14, 168-196, 236, 247

     

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 3

    ·      Eidinow, Binding Spells on Tablets and Papyri

    ·      Faraone, The Agonistic Context of Early Greek Binding Spells - Magika Hiera ch. 1

    ·      Versnel, Beyond Cursing - Magika Hiera ch. 3

    ·      Gordon, What's in a List?

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·      PGM VII 390-3, VII 394-5, VII 417-22, IX 1-14, XXXVI 1-34, XXXVI 35-68, XXXVI 231-55, and LVIII

    ·      Supplementum Magicum nos. 53, 55, 56

    ·      Edmonds, Blaming the Witch

    ·      Eidinow, Magic and Social Tension

    ·      Faraone, Binding and burying the forces of evil

    ·      Faraone, Aeschylus’ ὕμνος δέσμιος and Attic Judicial Curse Tablets

    ·      Lamont, In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells

    ·      Ogden, Binding spells: Curse tablets and voodoo dolls in the Greek and Roman worlds

    ·      Riess, Performing Interpersonal Violence: Curse Tablets

    ·      Strubbe, Cursed be he that moves my bones - Magika Hiera ch. 2

    ·      Versnel, Punish Those Who Rejoice in Our Misery

    ·      Versnel, “And any other part of the entire body there may be . . .”

    ·      Versnel, Writing Mortals and Reading Gods

     

    Defixio Assignment due at noon Monday, February 17