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An edition of Worlds full of signs (2013)

Worlds full of signs

ancient Greek divination in context

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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. -- Publisher website.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
248

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Subjects

Greek Oracles, Orakel, Divination, Wahrsagen, Oracles, Greece, social life and customs

Places

Griechenland, Greece
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Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context
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Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context
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Table of Contents

Preface --
List of abbreviations --
Introduction -- -- Part one. Introduction ot ancient divination
Historiography --
Defining divination --
Comparison -- -- Part two. Elements of ancient divination
The homo divinans : layman and expert --
Significance of signs --
Playing by the book? : use of a textual framework -- -- Part three. Funciton of ancient divination
Time and divination : divination and time --
Dealing with uncertainty --
Conclusion --
Select bibliography --
Index of modern authors --
Index of subjects.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and indexes.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- volume 176, Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 176.

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Dewey Decimal Class
133.30938
Library of Congress
BF1765 .B44 2013, BF1765.B44 2013, BF1765.B44 2013eb

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Pagination
xi, 248 pages
Number of pages
248

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OL28391241M
Internet Archive
worldsfullofsign0000beer
ISBN 10
9004252398
ISBN 13
9789004252394, 9789004256309
LCCN
2013021566
OCLC/WorldCat
847532382

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Work ID
OL20956907W

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