Ancient divination and experience /
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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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Corporate Author: Oxford Scholarship Online
Other Authors: Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay Gayle, 1983- (Editor), Eidinow, Esther, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Access:Online version
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.