Assignment Details

Defixio (curse tablet)

2022-2023

8L Latin

Date Due

Nov. 28, 2022

Additional Info
salvete,

For homework this week, please create a curse tablet (defixio) in the manner of the Romans. This needs to be created in physical form, not electronic!

  • Focus on presentation and make it look like a curse tablet in some way (using card, or cardboard, etc.).
  • Be creative with the magical elements - use magic words, mirror-writing, write the whole thing backwards, or in capitals, add in Greek letters, etc.
  • Curse a fictional person and make sure their name is appropriately Latin or Greek-sounding.
The resources we looked at in class are all saved in your Chapter 4 - Culture and Context section of your Class Notebook.

Please bring your curse tablets to our lesson next Monday.