The 13 curses5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() LINDSAY WATSON is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Ĥ. The volume concludes first by placing hellenistic curse poetry in its literary context and then relating it to the defixiones, the 'curse-tablets' of antiquity. ![]() The rich hellenistic material receives especially detailed treatment. It next undertakes a chronologically based examination of poetic curses, starting with the archaic and classical Greek periods, and then moving on to hellenistic and Roman curse-poetry. Ovid's Ibis is the most extensive example.Īrae, Lindsay Watson's fundamental study of this literary phenomenon, first differentiates the various types of curse found in ancient poetry with an eye to real-life analogues. As a result, curse poetry evolved as a significant literary genre, particularly in the Hellenistic and Roman period. 1991.įormally cursing one's enemies was a frequent activity in ancient life and literature. ![]()
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