Mantikê : studies in ancient divination /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Series: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
v. 155 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173882 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.