dc.contributor.author | Salvo, I | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-23T17:54:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-04-16 | |
dc.description.abstract | Love, wish for revenge, fear, hope: ancient cursing rituals managed to embrace a vast
spectrum of emotions. They were prompted by emotional experiences, they manipulated
feelings, and their result could have been a renewed emotional state. This paper intends to
look at how the archaeological and ritual settings contributed to shape the emotional and
bodily experience of individual participants. Active compounds such as frankincense could
have helped the uplifting of negative emotions, but lead exposure could have provoked health
damage. Sensory deprivation could have enhanced the sense of being in contact with the
divine or could have distorted perception. The case studies include a selection of documents
from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth (I-II CE), the sanctuary of Isis and Magna
Mater in Mainz (I-II CE), and that of Anna Perenna in Rome (II-V CE). From these texts and
their contexts, it is possible to attempt a sketch of the cognitive and embodied aspects of
cursing rituals as a multi-sensory experience | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | In: Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics, edited by Valentino Gasparini, Maik Patzelt, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, and Emiliano Urciuoli, pp. 157-180. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/9783110557596-009 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/120378 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | de Gruyter | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2020 Gasparini et al., published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. This book is published with open access at www.degruyter.com. | en_GB |
dc.title | Experiencing curses: neurobehavioral traits of ritual and spatiality in the Roman Empire | en_GB |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-23T17:54:01Z | |
dc.contributor.editor | Gasparini, V | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Patzelt, M | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Raja, R | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Rieger, A-K | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Rüpke, J | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Urciuoli, E | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-11-055794-7 | |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World | en_GB |
exeter.place-of-publication | Berlin | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from de Gruyter via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-04-30 | |
rioxxterms.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-03-23T17:50:45Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-04-16T15:58:22Z | |