Detailed Information on Publication Record
2020
Strategies of Addressing Higher Powers from Graeco-Roman Antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages
URBANOVÁ, DanielaBasic information
Original name
Strategies of Addressing Higher Powers from Graeco-Roman Antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages
Authors
Edition
Magic in Late Antiquity, Objects, Texts and Contexts; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1.-3. 3. 2020, 2020
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60202 Specific languages
Country of publisher
Israel
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)
magické formule; adiuro; exorkizo; defixe; epitafy; amulety
Keywords in English
magical formulae; adiuro; exorkizo; curse tablets; epitaphs; amulets
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 26/3/2021 16:50, doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
The adjuration formula epigraphical documents. Every formula contains a verb of adjuration – in Greek orkizo and its compounds, in Latin adiuro or coniuro – in the first person singular or plural with explicit performative utterance. A direct addressee is always implicitly or explicitly present – syntactically this is the object of the verb of adjuration. By mediation clause, we mean frequent prepositional phrases introduced in Greek typically with kata, and in Latin with per. These are supposed to enhance the adjuration by invoking a higher power or an entity making sure that the direct addressee does what they are commanded to do. The desired effect is simply what the author of the inscription wishes to achieve. Occasionally, the adjuration formula may contain a clause promising rewards for the direct addressee should they produce desired effect – or, alternatively, a punishment or a threat if they fail to do so.
Links
| MUNI/A/1014/2019, interní kód MU |
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