Ancient divination and experience / / Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy and Esther Eidinow.

How did people in the ancient world experience their attempts to communicate with divine powers? This volume seeks to re-examine divination in ancient Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, and Chinese cultures and to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and p...

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Superior document:Oxford scholarship online
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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (309 pages)
Notes:This edition also issued in print: 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Augur anxieties in the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel
  • Testing the oracle? : on the experience of (multiple) oracular consultations / Esther Eidinow.