| Physical description |
1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Series |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 155
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 155. 0927-7633
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : divining divination / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Signs, commands, and knowledge : ancient divination between enigma and epiphany / Walter Burkert -- Rolling the dice for an answer / Fritz Graf -- Christian divination in late Roman Gaul : the Sortes Sangallenses / William E. Klingshirn -- Sorte unica pro casibus pluribus enotata : literary texts and lot inscriptions as sources for ancient kleromancy / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Divination and literary criticism? / Peter T. Struck -- Chresmologues and manteis : independent diviners and the problem of authority / John Dillery -- Voices, books, and dreams : the diversification of divination media in late antique Egypt / David Frankfurter -- Necromancy goes underground : the disguise of skull- and corpse-divination in the Paris magical papyri (PGM IV 1928-2144) / Christopher A. Faraone -- Delphi and the dead / Sarah Iles Johnston. |
| Summary |
This book is a collection of studies by scholars Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and early Christian religions on the topic of divination. Its topics range from necromancy to dice rolling, free-lance diviners to Delphi, and includes treatments from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. |
| Other author |
Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-
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Struck, Peter T.
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| Subject |
Divination.
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Mantike |
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Ancient divination |
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History |
| ISBN |
9781429453585 (electronic bk.) |
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1429453583 (electronic bk.) |
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1433705346 |
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9781433705342 |
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9789004144972 (alk. paper) |
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9004144978 (alk. paper) |
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9789047407966 |
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9047407962 |
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9004144978 (alk. paper) |
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