2013 Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture: A Cognitive History of Divination in Ancient Greece
, Ancient Greeks drew advice from oracles, dreams, entrails, the movements of birds, sneezes, and myriad other sources for divination. Classicists typically study such phenomena as examples of occult religion, or for their use as a social mechanism for managing dissent and forging consensus. Ancient...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2016
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Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2016, Volume: 77, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-25 |
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