Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World

Herausgeber: Woodard, Roger D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the phenomena of ancient Greek prophecy and divination, and offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of ancient prophecy. Considering issues such as comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality, the volume demonstrates their relevance to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781009221610
• ISBN-10: 1009221612
• Artikelnr.: 64036374

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction John J. Peradotto
1. Greek divination as the transformation of an Indo-European process Roger D. Woodard
2. On divinatory practices and La Raison Des Signes in Archaic Greece Claude Calame
3. Oracle and client Robert Parker
4. Disappointment, dissonance, and reconfiguration: Oracular failure in ancient Greek culture Esther Eidinow
5. The dynamism of mouvance in the pronouncements of the delphic oracle Gregory Nagy
6. Decentralising delphi: Predictive oracles, local knowledge, and social memory Maurizio Giangiulio
7. Oracular tales before historiography Nino Luragi
8. Omens and portents foretelling victory and defeat: Ontological, literary, and cognitive perspectives Michael A. Flower
9. The use of divination by Macedonian kings Fred S. Naiden
10. False prophets and fake prophecies in Lucian Dana Fields
11. Afterword Roger D. Woodard
Abbreviations
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