04 - Magic in the Ancient World with Dr. Andrew Henry
Hearth of Hellenism
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The Ancients' Concept of Sympathy
I suspect Christianity has something to do with it. Yeah because you know cursed never went away I think it's probably just changed forms but their prayers for justice there's different categories. There's commercial curses eroticism curses and then there's like the theatrical athletic curses we have so many curses cursing runners or chariot teams. Some of them have been discovered on racetracks in Antioch that was discovered buried under the starting gate. So you can just again try to reconstruct the social context some guy snuck out there at night and buried this cursed tablet under thestarting gate of the green team and made made the green teams chariot explode is just really really interesting.
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