Mantikê : studies in ancient divination /
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Language: English
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
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Call Number: BF1761 .M36 2005
Table of Contents:
- •Introduction: Divining Divination •Signs, Commands, and Knowledge: Ancient Divination between Enigma and Epiphany •Rolling the Dice for an Answer •Christian Divination in Late Roman Gaul: the Sortes Sangallenses •Sorte unica pro casibus pluribus enotata: Literary Texts and Lot Inscriptions as Sources for Ancient Kleromancy •Divination and Literary Criticism? •Chresmologues and Manteis: Independent Diviners and the Problem of Authority •Voices, Books, and Dreams: The Diversification of Divination Media in Late Antique Egypt •Necromancy Goes Underground: The Disguise of Skull- and Corpse-Divination in the Paris Magical Papyri (PGM IV 1928-2144) •Delphi and the Dead •Index Locorum •Subject Index