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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Titre(s) : Ancient divination and experience [Texte imprimé] / edited by Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy and Esther Eidinow
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi-296 p.) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index
"This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient
Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought
they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions
and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range
of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared
questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs,
anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human
'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain?
The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination
in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory
experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites,
the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise
their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation
with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination
could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants."
-- Publisher's description
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay Gayle (1983-....). Éditeur scientifique
Eidinow, Esther (1970-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Titre de dos : Ancient divination & experience
Sujet(s) : Magie antique
Divination -- Antiquité
Religions -- Antiquité
Indice(s) Dewey :
203.2 (23e éd.) = Divination (religion)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198844549 (rel.). - ISBN 0198844549. - ISBN 9780198844549 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45813121q
Notice n° :
FRBNF45813121
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction / Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow ; Augur anxieties in
the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel ; Testing the oracle? : on the experience
of (multiple) oracular consultations / Esther Eidinow ; Euxenippos at Oropos : dreaming
for Athens / Hugh Bowden ; hose dream is it anyway? : navigating the significance
of dreams in the ancient world / Jason P. Davies ; A reconsideration of the Pythia'
s use of lots : constraints and chance in Delphic divination / Lisa Maurizio ; Making
sense of chaos : civil war, dynasties, and family trees / Andrew Stiles ; Prodigies
in the early Principate? / Federico Santangelo ; Unsuccessful sacrifice in Roman
state divination / Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy ; Divination and the 'real presence'
of the divine in ancient Greece / Michael A. Flower ; The Pythia at Delphi: a cognitive
reconstruction of oracular possession / Quinton Deeley ; Which gods if any : gods,
cosmologies, and their implications for Chinese and Greek divination / Lisa Raphals
Expertise and authority ; Signs and control ; Divine presence?
