title: “As Isis Loved Osiris, So Let Matrona Love Theodoros…”: Sympathetic Magic and Similia Similibus Formulae in Greek and Latin Curse Tablets (Part 2)
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metadata.value: Franek, Juraj
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metadata.value: Urbanová, Daniela
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-07T13:28:22Z
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metadata.value: 2020-02-07T13:28:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Juraj Franek, Daniela Urbanová. “As Isis Loved Osiris, So Let Matrona Love Theodoros…”: Sympathetic Magic and Similia Similibus Formulae in Greek and Latin Curse Tablets (Part 2). Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 177–207.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17052
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metadata.value: In this contribution, we present a representative corpus of similia similibus formulae attested
  in ancient Greek and Latin curse tablets or defixiones. The simile formulae, attested in about
  80 tablets in widely differing states of preservation and legibility, are introduced in the context
  of sympathetic magic and, in contradistinction to literary similes, as performative utterances
  that are based on a persuasive analogy. This analogy operates in the general form of “just as
  X possesses property P, so let also Y possess property P”, in which Y is the target or victim of
  the curse, while X and P are variables that change in accordance with the intended results. We
  provide a provisional taxonomy of simile formulae, offer new readings and interpretations of
  some defixiones, and compare Greek and Latin documents. Due to its length, the paper has
  been divided into two parts. In the first part, presented in the previous issue of Philologia Classica
  (Vol. 14, Fasc. 1, Pp. 27–55), we introduced curse tablets, briefly discussed the principles
  of sympathetic magic, and focused on comparata that reference the materiality of the tablet
  and comparata referencing corpses or ghosts of the dead. The remaining comparata, namely
  animals, historiolae and rituals, aversus formulae and unusual orientations of the script,
  “names”, and drawings, are presented in here together with general conclusions.
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metadata.value: Daniela Urbanová kindly acknowledges the support of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy in Munich (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut), and especially its
  Vice Director Prof. Dr. Rudolf Haensch, for the opportunity to work on the paper as an invited research
  fellow in September 2019. This study is a result of the project GA ČR 19-02741S “The Transmission and
  Transformation of Ideas in Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity” funded by the Czech Science
  Foundation.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: curse tablets
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: defixiones
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient magic
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sympathetic magic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek and Latin epigraphy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: similia similibus
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: simile formula
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: animals in antiquity
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiola
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “As Isis Loved Osiris, So Let Matrona Love Theodoros…”: Sympathetic Magic and Similia Similibus Formulae in Greek and Latin Curse Tablets (Part 2)
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metadata.value: Article
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