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 ranges 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.
#12605812 in Books 1988-12Original language:Italian #File Name: 8843526812262 pages
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