Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in ContextFlexibility is the distinguishing feature of ancient Greek divination. Worlds Full of Signs offers a systematic approach by discussing the divinatory sign, homo divinans, text and uncertainty management from a comparative perspective, using Republican Rome and Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia as comparanda. |
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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 |
| 231 | |
Index of Modern Authors | 237 |
| 243 | |
Chapter Six Playing by the Book? Use of a Textual Framework | 139 |
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| Título | Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
| Autor | Kim Beerden |
| Editor | BRILL, 2013 |
| ISBN | 900425630X, 9789004256309 |
| N.º de páginas | 272 páginas |
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