Mantikê : studies in ancient divination

Mantikê : studies in ancient divination / edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-, Struck, Peter T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 155.
Subjects:
Divination.
divination.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Divination > Fortune Telling.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Prophecy.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Divination > General.
Divination
Waarzeggerij.
Profetieën.
Klassieke oudheid.
History
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Table of 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.

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