Mantike : Studies in ancient divination. Edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.

Johnston, Sarah Iles; Struck, Peter T. (ed.)

ISBN 10: 9004144978 / ISBN 13: 9789004144972

Edité par Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2005., 2005

Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, 3 ff., 322 pp., a well preserved copy. [RGRW - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 155]. - ISBN: 9789004144972. - Contents / Inhalt : Preliminary Material / Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck. - DIVINING DIVINATION / Sarah Iles Johnston. - SIGNS, COMMANDS, AND KNOWLEDGE: ANCIENT DIVINATION BETWEEN ENIGMA AND EPIPHANY / Walter Burkert. - ROLLING THE DICE FOR AN ANSWER / Fritz Graf. - CHRISTIAN DIVINATION IN LATE ROMAN GAUL: THE SORTES SANGALLENSES / William E. Klingshirn. - SORTE UNICA PRO CASIBUS PLURIBUS ENOTATA LITERARY TEXTS AND LOT INSCRIPTIONS AS SOURCES FOR ANCIENT KLEROMANCY / Cristiano Grottanelli. - DIVINATION AND LITERARY CRITICISM? / Peter T. Struck. - CHRESMOLOGUES AND MANTEIS: INDEPENDENT DIVINERS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORITY / John Dillery. - VOICES, BOOKS, AND DREAMS: THE DIVERSIFICATION OF DIVINATION MEDIA IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT / David Frankfurter. - NECROMANCY GOES UNDERGROUND: THE DISGUISE OF SKULL- AND CORPSE-DIVINATION IN THE PARIS MAGICAL PAPYRI (PGM IV 1928-2144) / Christopher A. Faraone. - DELPHI AND THE DEAD / Sarah Iles Johnston. - INDEX LOCORUM / Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck. - SUBJECT INDEX / Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck. Includes bibliographical references and index. ||| Divination - Weissagung - [oR-Doki | DOK | ] 725 g. N° de réf. du vendeur 001284

Synopsis :

This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes of independent diviners, the activity of Delphi in ordering relations with the dead, the role of Egyptian cult centers in divinatory practices, and the surreptitious survival of recipes for divination by corpses. It also reflects a ranges of methodologies, drawn from anthropology, history of religions, intellectual history, literary studies, and archaeology, epigraphy, and paleography. It will be of particular interest to scholars and student of ancient Mediterranean religions.

À propos de l?auteur: Sarah Iles Johnston received her doctorate from Cornell University in 1987 and is Professor of Greek & Latin and of Religious Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the General Editor of Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Harvard University Press, 2004) and the author of Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (University of California Press, 1999). She is currently writing a book on the "Orphic" gold tablets with Fritz Graf.
Peter T. Struck, Ph.D. (1997), University of Chicago, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is titled Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts (Princeton University Press, 2004). He is currently at work on a project that takes a semiotic approach to ancient Greek theories of divination.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Mantike : Studies in ancient divination. ...
Éditeur : Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2005.
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Couverture rigide