Curse tablets and binding spells from the ancient world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John G. Gager

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777322003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-19-773876-1; 0-19-988118-9; 9786610834266; 1-280-83426-9; 0-19-802277-8; 0-19-535062-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): GagerJohn G
• Disciplina: 133.44
• Soggetti: Incantations; Blessing and cursing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction; 1. Competition in Theater and Circus; 2. Sex, Love, and Marriage; 3. Tongue-Tied in Court: Legal and Political Disputes; 4. Businesses, Shops, and Taverns; 5. Pleas for Justice and Revenge; 6. Miscellaneous Tablets; 7. Antidotes and Counterspells; 8. Testimonies; Glossary of Uncommon Words; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into every aspect of ancient life--athletic and theatrical competitions, judicial proceedings.

Dynamic aspects of detonations / / edited by A.L. Kuhl ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955084203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993
• ISBN: 1-60086-626-3; 1-60086-407-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Collana: Progress in astronautics and aeronautics, , 0079-6050 ; ; v. 153
• Altri autori (Persone): KuhlA. L
• Soggetti: Explosions; Detonation waves
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Technical papers from the thirteenth International Colloquium on Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Nagoya, Japan, July 1991, and subsequently revised for this volume."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter I""; ""Chronology of Research on Detonation Waves:1920-1950""; ""Chapter II. Gaseous Detonations""; ""High Resolution Numerical Simulations forTwo-Dimensional Unstable Detonations""; ""Simulation of Cellular Structure in a Detonation Wave""; ""Mach Reflection of Detonation Waves""; ""Formation and Propagation of PhotochemicalDetonations in Hydrogen-Chlorine Mixtures""; ""Mechanism of Unstable Detonation Front Origin""; ""Numerical Modeling of Galloping Detonation""; ""Experimental Study of the Fine Structurein Spin Detonations""""Influence of Fluorocarbons on H2O2Ar Detonation:Experiments and Modeling""; ""Oxidation of Gaseous UnsymmetricalDimethv Ihydrazine at High Temperatures andDetonation of UDMH/O2 Mixtures""; ""Digital Signal Processing Analysis of Soot Foils""; ""Cylindrical Detonations inMethane-Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures""; ""Chapter III. Initiation of Detonation Waves""; ""Structure of Reaction Waves Behind Oblique Shocks""; ""Ignition in a Complex Mach Structure""; ""Photographic Study of the Direct Initiation ofDetonation by a Turbulent Jet""; ""Transition from Fast Deflagration to DetonationUnder the Influence of Wall Obstacles""""Simulations for Detonation Initiation BehindReflected ; Shock Waves""; ""Limiting Tube Diameter of Gaseous Detonation""; ""Effect of Flame Inhibitors on DetonationCharacteristics of Fuel-Air Mixtures""; ""Propagation of Gaseous Detonations Through Regionsof Low Reactivity""; ""Failure of the Classical DynamicParameters Relationships in Highly RegularCellular Detonation Systems""; ""Chapter IV. Nonideal Detonations and Boundary Effects""; ""Mechanisms of Detonation Propagation in aPorous Medium""; ""Propagation and Extinction of Detonation Waves inTube Bundles""""Simultaneous Strong and Quasi-Chapman-JouguetDetonation Wave Propagation""; ""Structure and Velocity Deficit of Gaseous Detonationin Rough Tubes""; ""Possible Method for Quenching of GaseousDetonations""; ""Effect of Losses on the Existence of NonidealDetonations in Hybrid Two-Phase Mixtures""; ""Effect of Hollow Heterogeneities onNitromethane Detonation""; ""Author Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: The four companion volumes on Dynamic Aspects of Detonations and Explosion Phenomena and Dynamics of Gaseous and Heterogeneous Combustion and Reactive Systems present 111 of the 230 papers given at the Thirteenth International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems held in Nagoya, Japan. These books embrace the topics of explosions, detonations, shock phenomena, and reactive flow, as well as the gasdynamic aspects of nonsteady flow in combustion systems, the fluid mechanics aspects of combustion, and diagnostic techniques. Two of the volumes, Dynamics of Gaseous Combustion (Vol. 151) and Dynamics of Heterogeneous Combustion and Reacting Systems (Vol. 152), focus on the processes of coupling the exothermic energy release with the fluid mechanics occurring in various combination processes. The other two volumes, Dynamic Aspects of Detonations (Vol. 153) and Dynamic Aspects of Explosion Phenomena (Vol. 154), address the rate processes of energy deposition in a compressible medium and the concurrent nonsteady flow as it typically occurs in explosion phenomena.