Prophets and Profits

Ancient Divination and Its Reception
Herausgeber: Evans, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Whether humans sought knowledge by applying to an oracle or whether they used soothsayers who interpreted specific signs there was a fundamental desire to know the will of the gods. This volume examines the ways in which divination linked mortals with the gods, and places the practice within the ancient socio-political and religious environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367594619
• ISBN-10: 0367594617
• Artikelnr.: 60043462

Autorenporträt

Richard Evans has taught at the Universities of South Africa and Cardiff. His research has focused on the political and military history of Greece and Rome, and the ancient topography of Sicily and Magna Graecia. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Daniel Ogden
Chapter 2: Was Didyma (Branchidae) a False Prophet?
Richard Evans
Chapter 3: 'Who Wrote Greek Curse Tablets?'
Olivier Dufault
Chapter 4: A Story of Blood, Guts and Guesswork: Synthetic Reasoning in
Classical Greek Divination
Ralph Anderson
Chapter 5: Value-Added Divination at Dodona
Philip Bosman
Chapter 6: Divination and Profit in the Roman World
Federico Santangelo
Chapter 7: Profiting from Prophecy: Q. Marcius Rex and the Construction of
the Aqua Marcia
Alex Nice
Chapter 8: Valerius Maximus and the Language of Stars
Jeffrey Murray
Chapter 9: "Arrows Fletched from Our Own Wings": Discovering a 'Delphi of
the Mind' in the Writings of the Early Church Fathers
Daniel Crosby
Chapter 10: Egyptian Necromancy in Heliodorus Aethiopica (6.12-15) and The
Witch of Endor Narrative (1 Sam 28)
John Hilton
Chapter 11: Sosipatra: Prophetess, Philosopher and Theurgist: Reflections
on Divination and Epistemology in Late Antiquity
Crystal Addey
Chapter 12: One Oracle too Many? Corippus and Procopius on Female Prophecy
in North Africa
Martine de Marre
Chapter 13: Deconstructing Divination: Superstition, Anticlericalism, and
Cicero's De Divinatione in Enlightenment England
Katherine East
Chapter 14: Prophecy and Paul Kruger: Robert Grendon's Appropriation of
Greco-Roman Prophets and Prophetic Devices in his South African Epic, Paul
Kruger's Dream
Szerdi Nagy
Chapter 15: Cassandra Prophesies Back: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Firebrand
Elke Steinmeyer