Ancient Greek Divination

by Johnston, Sarah Iles

• ISBN13: 9781405115735
• ISBN10: 1405115734
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earliest attempts by ancient Greeks to seek the counsel of the gods. Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners, do-it-yourself methods of foretelling the future, magical divinatory techniques, and much more Illustrates how the study of divination illuminates the mentalities of ancient Greek religions and societies

Author Biography

Sarah Iles Johnston is Professor of Greek and Latin and Director of the Program in the Study of Religions at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Hekate Soteira (1990) and Restless Dead (1999) and the editor or co-editor of Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art (1997), Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (2004) and Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (2005). Her most recent book, which she co-authored with Fritz Graf, is Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Why Divination?	p. 1
The Divine Experience	p. 33
Delphi and Dodona
The Divine Experience	p. 76
Claros, Didyma and Others
Freelance Divination: The Mantis	p. 109
The Mantis and the Magician	p. 144
Index Locorum	p. 183
Subject Index	p. 188
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