Mantikê
Subtitle: studies in ancient divination
By: edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.
Contributors: Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-.; Struck, Peter T.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 155
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Divination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : divining divination / Sarah Iles Johnston; title: Signs, commands, and knowledge : ancient divination between enigma and epipany / Walter Burkert; title: Rolling the dice for an answer / Fritz Graf; title: Christian divination in late Roman Gaul : the Sortes Sangallenses / William E. Klingshirn; title: Sorte unica pro casibus pluribus enotata : literary texts and lot inscriptions as sources for ancient kleromancy / Cristiano Grottanelli; title: Divination and literary criticism? / Peter T. Struck; title: Chresmologues and manteis ? independent diviners and the problem of authority / John Dillery; title: Voices, books, and dreams : the diversification of divination media in late antique Egypt / David Frankfurter; title: Necromancy goes underground : the disguise of skull- and corpse-divination in the Paris magical papyri (PGM IV 1928-2144) / Christopher A. Faraone; title: Delphi and the dead / Sarah Iles Johnston.