Section outline

  • Week III (September 14 & 16)  Curses – Binding Spells for All Occasions

    Topics:

    ·      competition and cursing

    ·      athletic contexts

    ·      legal contexts

    ·      binding and harming

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 3

    ·      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

     

    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
    • Edmonds, Contingent Catastrophe
    • Eidinow, Binding Spells on Tablets and Papyri
    • Eidinow, Magic and Social Tension
    • Faraone, The Agonistic Context of Early Greek Binding Spells - Magika Hiera ch. 1
    • Faraone, Binding and burying the forces of evil
    • Faraone, Aeschylus’ ὕμνος δέσμιος and Attic Judicial Curse Tablets
    • Gordon, What's in a List?
    • Lamont, Curse-Writing and the Epigraphic Habit
    • 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, Beyond Cursing - Magika Hiera ch. 3
    • 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
    • Woolf, Curse Tablets: The History of a Technology

     

    Defixio Assignment due at noon Monday, September 28