Worlds full of signs : ancient Greek divination in context /
Flexibility 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.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
| Publié: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Collection: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ;
v. 176. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Flexibility 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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004256309 900425630X 1299829880 9781299829886 |
| ISSN: | 0927-7633 ; |


