Preface

pp.：  11 – 14

Abbreviations

pp.：  15 – 20

List of Text-Figures, Tables and Illustrations

pp.：  21 – 26

The Contributors

pp.：  27 – 28

Introduction (Richard Gordon and Francisco Marco Simón)

pp.：  29 – 78

PART I THE DISCOURSE OF MAGIC

pp.：  79 – 166

Chapter One Magus and its Cognates in Classical Latin (James B. Rives)

pp.：  81 – 106

Chapter Two Magic in the Roman Historians (Matthew W. Dickie)

pp.：  107 – 132

Chapter Three Heretical Texts and maleficium in the Codex Theodosianus (CTh . 16.5.34) (María Victoria Escribano Paño)

pp.：  133 – 166

PART II REVISING THE CORPUS

pp.：  167 – 382

Chapter Four The defixiones from the Sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz (Jürgen Blänsdorf)

pp.：  169 – 218

Chapter Five Religion and Magic at Rome: The Fountain of Anna Perenna (Marina Piranomonte)

pp.：  219 – 242

Chapter Six The Texts from the Fons Annae Perennae (Jürgen Blänsdorf)

pp.：  243 – 272

Chapter Seven Cursing a Thief in Iberia and Britain (Roger Tomlin)

pp.：  273 – 302

Chapter Eight Prayers for Justice in East and West: Recent Finds and Publications (Henk S. Versnel)

pp.：  303 – 382

PART III WRITING DEFIXIONES: MODELS, LANGUAGE AND AIMS

pp.：  383 – 452

Chapter Nine How does Magical Language Work? The Spells and of the Latin defixionum tabellae (Amina Kropp)

pp.：  385 – 408

Chapter Ten Inversion, Adversion and Perversion as Strategies in some Latin Curse Tablets (Christopher Faraone and Amina Kropp)

pp.：  409 – 426

Chapter Eleven Execrating the Roman Power: Three defixiones from Emporiae (Ampurias) (Francisco Marco Simón)

pp.：  427 – 452

PART IV PROTECTIVE, EUDAEMONIC AND DIVINATORY MAGIC

pp.：  453 – 676

Chapter Twelve Nails for the Dead: A Polysemic Account of an Ancient Funerary Practice (Silvia Alfayé Villa)

pp.：  455 – 484

Chapter Thirteen Magic at Sea: Amulets for Navigation (Sabino Perea Yébenes)

pp.：  485 – 514

Chapter Fourteen A Prayer for Blessings on three Ritual Objects at Chartres-Autricum (France/Eure-et-Loir) (Richard Gordon, Dominique Joly and William van Andringa)

pp.：  515 – 546

Chapter Fifteen Mithraism and Magic (Jaime Alvar Ezquerra)

pp.：  547 – 578

Chapter Sixteen A Visigothic Charm from Asturias and the Classical Tradition of Phylacteries Against Hail (Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto)

pp.：  579 – 628

Chapter Seventeen Between Orthodox Belief and 'Superstition' in Visigothic Hispania (Isabel Velázquez Soriano)

pp.：  629 – 656

Chapter Eighteen Celtic Loricae and Ancient Magical Charms (Pierre-Yves Lambert)

pp.：  657 – 676

General Index

pp.：  677 – 736

Select Index of Texts and Documents cited

pp.：  688 – 696

Index of Latin words

pp.：  697 – 702

Select index of Greek words

pp.：  703 – 736