Greek and Roman Necromancy /

Greek and Roman Necromancy / / Daniel Ogden.

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In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civili...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Ogden, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2002
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 13 halftones. 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: PLACES
  • CHAPTER 1. TOMBS AND BATTLEFIELDS
  • CHAPTER 2. ORACLES OF THE DEAD
  • CHAPTER 3. THE HERACLEIA PONTICA AND TAINARON NEKUOMANTEIA
  • CHAPTER 4. THE ACHERON NEKUOMANTEION
  • CHAPTER 5. THE AVERNUS NEKUOMANTEION
  • CHAPTER 6. INCUBATION AND DREAMING
  • PART II: PEOPLE
  • CHAPTER 7. EVOCATORS, SORCERERS, AND VENTRILOQUISTS
  • CHAPTER 8. SHAMANS, PYTHAGOREANS, AND ORPHICS
  • CHAPTER 9. ALIENS AND WITCHES
  • CHAPTER 10. NECROMANCY AMONG THE ROMANS
  • PART III: TECHNOLOGY
  • CHAPTER 11. TRADITIONAL RITES OF EVOCATION
  • CHAPTER 12. FROM BOWL DIVINATION TO BOY-SACRIFICE
  • CHAPTER 13. REANIMATION AND TALKING HEADS
  • PART IV: THEORY
  • CHAPTER 14. GHOSTS IN NECROMANCY
  • CHAPTER 15. THE WISDOM OF THE DEAD
  • CHAPTER 16. BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
  • CONCLUSION: ATTITUDES TOWARD NECROMANCY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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