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Mantikê : studies in ancient divination /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Colección: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 155. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.