Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The chapter examines magical and medical recipes from ancient Greek and Egyptian sources that employ disturbing ingredients such as blood, feces, and body parts. It explores how these recipes relate to experiences of horror through two principal encounters. The first concerns a ritual attributed to Pachrates, high priest of Heliopolis, who performed an attraction spell before Emperor Hadrian by burning incense mixed with animal parts and excrement to invoke Selene, inflicting insomnia and psychic torment upon his victim. The second examines an ancient recipe for magical ink made with myrrh and blood, replicated experimentally to test its physical properties, the results show that blood had no practical effect, implying a purely symbolic or ritual function. By contrasting the magician’s acceptance of supernatural forces with Galen’s rationalist rejection of them, the study shows that ancient Mediterranean cultures conceived horror as both supernatural and corporeal, with the body serving as the site where unseen powers were manifested and verified.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine

Popis výsledku anglicky

The chapter examines magical and medical recipes from ancient Greek and Egyptian sources that employ disturbing ingredients such as blood, feces, and body parts. It explores how these recipes relate to experiences of horror through two principal encounters. The first concerns a ritual attributed to Pachrates, high priest of Heliopolis, who performed an attraction spell before Emperor Hadrian by burning incense mixed with animal parts and excrement to invoke Selene, inflicting insomnia and psychic torment upon his victim. The second examines an ancient recipe for magical ink made with myrrh and blood, replicated experimentally to test its physical properties, the results show that blood had no practical effect, implying a purely symbolic or ritual function. By contrasting the magician’s acceptance of supernatural forces with Galen’s rationalist rejection of them, the study shows that ancient Mediterranean cultures conceived horror as both supernatural and corporeal, with the body serving as the site where unseen powers were manifested and verified.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GM21-30494M" target="_blank" >GM21-30494M: Alchymie vůní. Rekonstrukce starověkých řecko-egyptských parfumářských postupů: Experimentální přístup k dějinám vědy</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond. Body, Affect, Concepts

ISBN

978-1-3503-8064-6

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

215-245

Počet stran knihy

303

Název nakladatele

Bloomsbury Academic

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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