Ancient Divination and Experience

by Driediger-murphy, Lindsay G.; Eidinow, Esther

• ISBN13: 9780198844549
• ISBN10: 0198844549
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-11-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Assistant Professor in Latin and Roman Social/Religious History, University of Calgary,Esther Eidinow, Professor of Ancient History, University of Bristol

Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy is Assistant Professor in Latin and Roman Social/Religious History at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interests include Roman divination, ancient and modern conceptualizations of religion, interactions between religions in antiquity, and Greek and Latin historiography. She has published in such journals as Phoenix, ZPE, and GRBS, as well as authoring a monograph published by Oxford University Press, Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control.

Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research focuses on ancient Greek culture, especially religion and magic, and she is particularly interested in anthropological and cognitive approaches to these areas. She is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography. As well as numerous articles, her publications include Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks (OUP, 2007), Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (IB Tauris, 2010), and Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (OUP, 2016).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Contributors
0. Introduction, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy and Esther Eidinow
I. Expertise and Authority
1. Augur Anxieties in the Ancient Near East, Scott B. Noegel
2. Testing the Oracle? On the Experience of (Multiple) Oracular Consultations, Esther Eidinow
3. Euxenippos at Oropos: Dreaming for Athens, Hugh Bowden
4. Whose Dream Is It Anyway? Navigating the Significance of Dreams in the Ancient World, Jason P. Davies
II. Signs and Control
5. A Reconsideration of the Pythia's Use of Lots: Constraints and Chance in Delphic Divination, Lisa Maurizio
6. Making Sense of Chaos: Civil War, Dynasties, and Family Trees, Andrew Stiles
7. Prodigies in the Early Principate?, Federico Santangelo
8. Unsuccessful Sacrifice in Roman State Divination, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
III. Divine Presence?
9. Divination and the 'Real Presence' of the Divine in Ancient Greece, Michael A. Flower
10. The Pythia at Delphi: A Cognitive Reconstruction of Oracular Possession, Quinton Deeley
11. Which Gods if Any: Gods, Cosmologies, and their Implications for Chinese and Greek Divination, Lisa Raphals
Endmatter
Index