The monograph is intended for classical philologists, historians, religious scholars, archaeologists, and all those interested in these fields. It provides a detailed analysis of the Latin documentation of curse tablets from across the territory of the Roman Empire, mapping and analyzing the preserved Latin defixiones, whose production is documented in the territory of the Roman Empire from the end of the 2nd century BC until approximately the end of the 4th to the beginning of the 5th century AD. Newly published texts found in Mainz, Rome, and Aquileia, which were not included in the new Corpus of Latin Defixiones by Amina Kropp (2008), have also been incorporated into the corpus of analyzed texts (309). The work traces the occurrence, development, and spread of the Latin cursing tradition in individual provinces within the territory of the Roman Empire, providing Czech translations and interpretations of these 'magical' Latin texts and attempting to capture the specific, geographically or culturally historically conditioned peculiarities of the texts of curses and petitions for justice, mapping the spread of types of curses and cursing formulas, categorizing the goals of the writers, capturing potential developmental trends, mutual influences, and adaptations of Mediterranean magical heritage, especially in more remote areas. The analysis in this work further addresses the differences…
