SAMR Spring Lecture Series, Dr. Jessica L. Lamont, April 21st at 3pm EST
Cursing in Sanctuaries of the Mediterranean: From Sicily to North Africa to Greece.
This talk considers the presence of ritualized cursing — especially the "magical" creation and deposition of curse tablets — in three Mediterranean sanctuaries located at Selinous (Sicily), Cyrene (Libya), and Corinth (Greece). In showing how curse-writing might regularly unfold in sacred spaces, this talk demonstrates how ritual could render magic and religion inseparable in Greek and Roman antiquity.
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