The final instalment of our Halloween series is a grad student feature with Sophia Taborski, PhD student at Cornell, studying how curses teach us about intersecting identities, power structures, violence, and resistance in the Roman empire.
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Blog Post #86: “In Blood and Ashes”: An Interview with Jessica Lamont
In our latest instalment of our Halloween series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” we are interviewing Dr. Jessica Lamont, Assistant Professor at Yale University, on her newly published book through Oxford “In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece.” Dr. Lamont shares with us the questions and research that inspire this work, providing remarkable insight into the real people behind the curses in the ancient Mediterranean.
Peopling the Past 