Worlds full of signs : ancient Greek divination in context /

Worlds full of signs : ancient Greek divination in context /

Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of the two comparanda. Ample attention is given to background and method at first. Subsequent chap...

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Main Author: Beerden, Kim.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 176.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

Subjects:

Divination > Greece.
Oracles, Greek.
Divination.
Greece.

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Call Number: BF1765 .B44 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Historiography
  • 2 Defining Divination
  • 3 Comparison
  • 4 T he Homo Divinans: Layman and Expert
  • 5 Significance of Signs
  • 6 Playing by the Book? Use of a Textual Framework
  • 7 T ime and Divination-Divination and Time
  • 8 Dealing with Uncertainty
  • Conclusion
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Subjects.