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Paperback Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context Book

ISBN: 9004464220

ISBN13: 9789004464223

Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context

(Part of the Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Series)

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Worlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of the two comparanda. Ample attention is given to background and method at first. Subsequent chapters discuss the divinatory elements - sign, homo divinans, and text, relating divination to time and uncertainty. This book brings together...

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