Challenging adversity: Written curses as self-vindication
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tablas de maldición en la antigüedad, justicia subjetiva, agencia simbólica, lenguaje ritual, expresión formulaicaAbstract
This review of Sara Chiarini’s Habilitationsschrift, Devotio malefica*, was originally commissioned by the editors of MHNH. Finding that the few published reviews did not, in my view, do justice to the originality and scope of the work, which is written in German, I felt it would be helpful not only to describe its aims and achievements more fully than usual but also to include an Appendix listing Chiarini’s many useful discussions of individual texts, mainly in Greek but also in Latin. I am therefore most grateful to the editors of MHNH for making the additional space offered by their rubric Notabilia et Varia available to me.
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