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100 1 $aBeerden, Kim,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWorlds full of signs :$bancient Greek divination in context /$cby Kim Beerden.
246 30 $aAncient Greek divination in context
264 1 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2013.
300 $axi, 248 pages ;$c25 cm
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490 1 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world,$x0927-7633 ;$vvolume 176
500 $a"This book is a revised version of my dissertation (Leiden ... 2003)"--Page vii.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction to ancient divination -- Elements of ancient divination -- Function of ancient divination -- Conclusion.
520 $a"Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. First, ample attention is given to background and method; subsequent chapters discuss the divinatory elements – sign, homo divinans, and text - and relate divination to time and uncertainty. This book brings together sources from Mesoptamia, Greece, and Rome, questioning these to consider both the generalities of ancient divination and the specifics of ancient Greek divination. It is argued that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of two other units of comparison. Greek divination was inherently flexible on many levels: these findings should be connected to Greek views on the future as well as to the relatively low level of divinatory institutionalization"--Back cover.
650 0 $aDivination$zGreece.
650 0 $aOracles, Greek.
830 0 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world ;$vv. 176.
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