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Ancient Divination and Experience

by Lindsay Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow & Lindsay Gayle Driediger-Murphy

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English
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The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important socio-political dimensions of divination, it also runs the risk of obscuring from view the very people, ideologies, and experiences that scholars seek to understand. It explains that the essays in this volume focus on re-examining what ancient people—primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures—thought they were doing through divination. The Introduction provides an overview of the content of each chapter and identifies key themes and questions shared across chapters. The volume explores the types of relationships that divination created between mortals and gods, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from austrian-library-network, doab, library-of-congress, oapen, openalex, and swisscovery matched “divination” and “Wahrsagung”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the title, “Divination” in the description, “Divination” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Wahrsagung”· via Austrian Library Network — OBV-LIT
    • “divination”· via Directory of Open Access Books
    • “divination”· via Library of Congress
    • “divination”· via OAPEN Library
    • “divination”· via OpenAlex
    • “Wahrsagung”· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform

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Directory of Open Access Books edition

320; Oxford

2019Oxford University PressEnglish
  • 9780198844549
  • 0198844549
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Library of Congress digitized edition

2019—English—Public digital item

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ISBN-13
ISBN-10
LCCN
OCLC
DOI
Austrian control number
  • AC15538745
Austrian Library Network
  • 99145194410103331
DOAB
  • 20.500.12854/32336
Library of Congress
  • 2020718962
OAPEN
  • 20.500.12657/39876
OpenAlex
swisscovery
  • 991023993279705501

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