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Ancient divination and experience / Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy and Esther Eidinow.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divination.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Rome--Religion.
- Rome.
- China--Religion.
- China.
- Iraq--Religion.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- How did people in the ancient world experience their attempts to communicate with divine powers? This volume seeks to re-examine divination in ancient Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, and Chinese cultures and to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice.
- Contents:
- Augur anxieties in the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel
- Testing the oracle? : on the experience of (multiple) oracular consultations / Esther Eidinow.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 10, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258291-7
- 0-19-188003-5
- 0-19-258290-9
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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