Latinské proklínací tabulky na území římského impéria – Urbanová Daniela (2014)

The monograph is intended for classical philologists, historians, religious studies scholars, archaeologists, and all those interested in these fields. It provides a detailed analysis of Latin documentation for curse tablets from across the territory of the Roman Empire, mapping and analyzing the preserved Latin defixiones, whose production is documented in the Roman Empire from the late 2nd century BC until approximately the end of the 4th to early 5th century AD. The corpus of analyzed texts (309) also includes newly published texts found in Mainz, Rome, and Aquileia, which were not published in the new Corpus of Latin Defixiones by A. Kroppová (2008). The work traces the occurrence, development, and spread of the Latin cursing tradition in individual provinces of the Roman Empire, provides Czech translations and interpretations of these 'magical' Latin texts, and attempts to capture the specific, geographically or culturally historically conditioned peculiarities of the texts of curses and petitions for justice, map the spread of types of curses and cursing formulas, categorize the targets of the writers, capture possible developmental trends, mutual influences, and adaptations of the Mediterranean magical heritage, especially in more remote areas. The analysis in this work further examines the differences and similarities of the texts...