Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination
(Part of the Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Series)
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This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes of independent diviners, the activity of Delphi in ordering relations with the dead, the role of Egyptian cult centers in divinatory practices, and the surreptitious survival of recipes for divination by corpses. It also reflects a range of methodologies, drawn from anthropology, history of religions, intellectual history, literary studies, and archaeology, epigraphy, and paleography. It will be of particular interest to scholars and student of ancient Mediterranean religions.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:900428334X
ISBN13:9789004283343
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:Brill
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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