Ancient divination and experience /
This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
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2019.
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- Introduction / Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow
- Augur anxieties in the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel
- Testing the oracle : on the experience of (multiple) oracular consultations / Esther Eidinow
- Euxenippos at Oropos : dreaming for Athens / Hugh Bowden
- Whose dream is it anyway : navigating the significance of dreams in the ancient world / Jason P. Davies
- A reconsideration of the Pythia' s use of lots : constraints and chance in Delphic divination / Lisa Maurizio
- Making sense of chaos : civil war, dynasties, and family trees / Andrew Stiles
- Prodigies in the Early Principate / Federico Santangelo
- Unsuccessful sacrifice in Roman state divination / Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
- Divination and the 'real presence' of the divine in ancient Greece / Michael A. Flower
- The Pythia at Delphi: A Cognitive Reconstruction of Oracular Possession / Quinton Deeley
- Which gods if any : gods, cosmologies, and their implications for Chinese and Greek divination / Lisa Raphals.