Worlds full of signs
ancient Greek divination in context
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Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28391241M
- ISBN-139789004252394
- ISBN-109004252398
- OCLC Control Number847532382
- OCLC Control Numberworldsfullofsign0000beer
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2013021566
Classifications
- DDC133.30938
- LCCBF1765 .B44 2013
Description
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.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- volume 176
Other Editions
- Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context
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