Johnston Ancient Greek Divination

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0300-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Ancient Religions

The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatorymethods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yetdetailed treatment of the earliest attempts by ancient Greeks toseek the counsel of the gods.
* * Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners,do-it-yourself methods of foretelling the future, magicaldivinatory techniques, and much more
* Illustrates how the study of divination illuminates thementalities of ancient Greek religions and societies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Sarah Iles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Why Divination?.
2. The Divine Experience Part One: Delphi and Dodona.
3. The Divine Experience Part Two: Claros, Didyma andOthers.
4. Freelance Divination: The Mantis.
5. The Mantis and the Magician.
Index Locorum.
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Iles Johnston is Professor of Greek and Latin and Director of the Program in the Study of Religions at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Hekate Soteira (1990) and Restless Dead (1999) and the editor or co-editor of Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art (1997), Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (2004) and Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (2005). Her most recent book, which she co-authored with Fritz Graf, is Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007).