Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in ContextBRILL, 8 ago 2013 - 260 páginas Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of the two comparanda. Ample attention is given to background and method at first. Subsequent chapters discuss the divinatory elements – sign, homo divinans, and text, relating divination to time and uncertainty. This book brings together sources originating from various times and places, questioning these to consider both generalities of ancient divination and specifics of Greek divination. Greek divination was inherently flexible on many levels: these findings should be connected to Greek views on time and the future as well as the relatively low level of divinatory institutionalization. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Part One Introduction to Ancient Divination | 7 |
Chapter One Historiography | 9 |
Chapter Two Defining Divination | 19 |
Chapter Three Comparison | 43 |
Part Two Elements of Ancient Divination | 53 |
Layman and Expert | 55 |
Chapter Five Significance of Signs | 107 |
Part Three Function of Ancient Divination | 171 |
Chapter Seven Time and DivinationDivination and Time | 173 |
Chapter Eight Dealing with Uncertainty | 195 |
Conclusion | 223 |
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Index of Modern Authors | 237 |
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Chapter Six Playing by the Book? Use of a Textual Framework | 139 |
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Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context Kim Beerden No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2021 |
Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context Kim Beerden No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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