Magic and Divination in the Ancient World / / edited by Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel.
This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.
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| Superior document: | Ancient Magic and Divination Series ; Volume 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill/Styx,, [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ancient magic and divination ;
Volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Soul emplacements in ancient Mesopotamian funerary rituals / Joann Scurlock
- A severed head laughed: stories of divinatory interpretation / Ann Kessler Guinan
- Inquiring for the state in the ancient Near East: delineating political location / Joel Sweek
- Hittite oracles / Richard Beal
- Oracle by image: Coffin Text 103 in context / John Gee
- Necromancy in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner
- Necromantic praxis in the Midrash on the seance at En Dor / Jonathan Seidel
- Under Homer's spell / Gregg Schwender
- The poet as conjurer: magic and literary theory in late antiquity / Peter T. Struck
- Persons of power and their communities / Anitra Bingham Kolenkow.