Mantike : : studies in ancient divination / / edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.

• Superior document: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 155
• TeilnehmendeR: Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-; Struck, Peter T.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 155.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; DIVINING DIVINATION /; SIGNS, COMMANDS, AND KNOWLEDGE: ANCIENT DIVINATION BETWEEN ENIGMA AND EPIPHANY /; ROLLING THE DICE FOR AN ANSWER /; CHRISTIAN DIVINATION IN LATE ROMAN GAUL: THE SORTES SANGALLENSES /; SORTE UNICA PRO CASIBUS PLURIBUS ENOTATA LITERARY TEXTS AND LOT INSCRIPTIONS AS SOURCES FOR ANCIENT KLEROMANCY /; DIVINATION AND LITERARY CRITICISM? /; CHRESMOLOGUES AND MANTEIS: INDEPENDENT DIVINERS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORITY /; VOICES, BOOKS, AND DREAMS: THE DIVERSIFICATION OF DIVINATION MEDIA IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT /; NECROMANCY GOES UNDERGROUND: THE DISGUISE OF SKULL- AND CORPSE-DIVINATION IN THE PARIS MAGICAL PAPYRI (PGM IV 1928-2144) /; DELPHI AND THE DEAD /; INDEX LOCORUM /; SUBJECT INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1280868465; 9786610868469; 1429453583; 9047407962; 1433705346
• ISSN: 0927-7633
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.

This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes of independent diviners, the activity of Delphi in ordering relations with the dead, the role of Egyptian cult centers in divinatory practices, and the surreptitious survival of recipes for divination by corpses. It also reflects a ranges of methodologies, drawn from anthropology, history of religions, intellectual history, literary studies, and archaeology, epigraphy, and paleography. It will be of particular interest to scholars and student of ancient Mediterranean religions.