Divination in the Ancient World
Subtitle: religious options and the individual
By: edited by Veit Rosenberger
Contributors: Rosenberger, Veit, editor
Series: Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany); Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge -- Bd. 46; Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany); Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge -- Bd. 46.
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9783515106290
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Orakel; Prophetie; Greek Oracles; Divination; Religious life and customs; Antike; Congresses; Wahrsagen
Notes: This book is the printed outcome of the conference "Oracles in the Ancient World: Religious Options and the Individual" held at Erfurt University in October 2011 -- Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New perspectives on ancient divination  -- Jörg Rüpke; title: Oracular consultation, fate, and the concept of the individual  -- Esther Eidinow; title: Seeking certainty and claiming authority : the consultation of Greek oracles from classical and the Roman imperial periods  -- Hugh Bowden; title: Interpretative strategies for Delphic oracles and kledons : prophecy falsification and individualism  -- Lisa Maurizio; title: Cicero and the Pythia : a deceptive dilemma?  -- Susanne William Rasmussen; title: Will my child have a big nose?": uncertainty, authority and narrative in katarchic astrology  -- Richard Gordon; title: Lucian of Samosata on oracles, magic and superstition  -- Wolfgang Spickermann; title: Individuation through divination : the Hieroi logoi of Aelius Aristides -- Veit Rosenberger.