Inducing and Warding Off Fever in Graeco-Roman Magic

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Inducing and Warding Off Fever in Graeco-Roman Magic

FRANEK, Juraj

Základní údaje

Originální název

Inducing and Warding Off Fever in Graeco-Roman Magic

Název anglicky

Inducing and Warding Off Fever in Graeco-Roman Magic

Autoři

FRANEK, Juraj

Vydání

Magic and Medicine in the Ancient World: Interactions, Convergences and Divergencies in a Complicated Romance. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Universidad de Zaragoza. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Španělsko, 18.-19. 9. 2019, 2019

Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Klíčová slova anglicky

Fever, Curse Tablets, Amulets, Magic

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 21. 9. 2019 22:12, doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Juraj Franek, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The interplay between magic and medicine in Classical Antiquity has been the focus of numerous studies, but they are usually limited to either a particular class of epigraphical documents (e.g. Lancellotti 2001) or a particular ailment (e.g. Faraone 2011a). For instance, the “uterine magic” and “wandering wombs” generated significant scholarly attention that was not materialized only in the individual case studies (e.g. Ritner 1984; Tomlin 1997; Mastrocinque 2005) but also in more general overviews (e.g. Aubert 1989; Faraone 2003; Faraone 2011b; Björklund 2016). Despite its well-attested presence in all different types of performative magic, fever (πυρετός, febris) stood largely out of focus of researchers and – to my best knowledge – specialized studies exist only for Mesopotamian or Hebrew magic (Bácskay 2017; Lincicum 2008). In my talk, I will therefore analyse the uses and abuses of “fever” and its cognate terms in all relevant Greek and Latin epigraphical documents related to magical practice: defixiones (e.g. TheDeMa 490: … tradas illanc febri quartanae, tertianae, cottidianae …), inscribed gems (e.g. CBd 2325: Απάλλαξον Γαῒαν τοῦ πυρετοῦ …), amulets (e.g. I.Akrai 52: … Ἰαῶ Σαβαώθ, πρὸς πυρετὸν ἢ πρὸς ἡμερηνοὺς φόβους …) and magical papyri (e.g. PGM XIV, 25–26: … κατάβαλε τὸν δεῖνα [ἢ τὴν δεῖνα] ῥίγει καὶ πυρετῷ …). Whether the practitioners aim to induce fever or ward it off, its double nature as a burning amorous desire on the one hand and a crippling, potentially life-threatening affliction on the other offers interesting avenues of research into this hitherto rather unexplored topic.

Citovat

FRANEK, Juraj. Inducing and Warding Off Fever in Graeco-Roman Magic. In Magic and Medicine in the Ancient World: Interactions, Convergences and Divergencies in a Complicated Romance. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Universidad de Zaragoza. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Španělsko, 18.-19. 9. 2019. 2019.

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FRANEK, Juraj. Inducing and Warding Off Fever in Graeco-Roman Magic. In \textit{Magic and Medicine in the Ancient World: Interactions, Convergences and Divergencies in a Complicated Romance. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Universidad de Zaragoza. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Španělsko, 18.-19. 9. 2019}. 2019.

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