Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context

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Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context

Name: Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context
ISBN: 9789004252394

Kim Beerden

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Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of the two comparanda. Ample attention is given to background and method at first. Subsequent chapters discuss the divinatory elements – sign, homo divinans, and text, relating divination to time and uncertainty. This book brings together sources originating from various times and places, questioning these to consider both generalities of ancient divination and specifics of Greek divination. Greek divination was inherently flexible on many levels: these findings should be connected to Greek views on time and the future as well as the relatively low level of divinatory institutionalization.

კატეგორია:

Religion & Spirituality
History - World History

წელი:

2013

გამომცემლობა:

Brill Academic Publishers

ენა:

english

ISBN 10:

9004252398

ISBN 13:

9789004252394