RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 El papel de las mujeres en la práctica mágica maléfica grecorromana a la luz de los textos A1 López Jimeno, María del Amor K1 Magia, Estudios sobre la mujer, defixiones, Epigrafía griega, K1 Mujer. Magia maléfica. Antigua Grecia. Roma. Defixiones AB . In this paper we aim to corroborate or refute the stereotyped image of women as agents of malefic magic, transmitted since ancient times by literary sources, and to see what it obeys. We analyzed the primary sources, curse tablets in Greek and/or Latin, female onomastics among the victims and/or possible perpetrators, in order to verify whether the role of women in this type of magical practices was active, as material or intellectual author or, on the contrary, passive, as victims of the spells. The epigraphic sources seem to contradict the literary ones and the topos of the woman-magician seems to be a construct of an eminently patriarchal society, maintained by inertia by the later tradition. PB Éditions Méduse d’Or SN 1748-7811 YR 2023 FD 2023-12 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/65933 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/65933 LA spa NO Journal of Hellenic Religion 16, pp. 67-114. NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 17-jul-2024