Mantike : Studies in ancient divination. Edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.

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Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, 3 ff., 322 pp., a well preserved copy. [RGRW - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 155]. - ISBN: 9789004144972. - Contents / Inhalt : Preliminary Material / Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck. - DIVINING DIVINATION / Sarah Iles Johnston. - SIGNS, COMMANDS, AND KNOWLEDGE: ANCIENT DIVINATION BETWEEN ENIGMA AND EPIPHANY / Walter Burkert. - ROLLING THE DICE FOR AN ANSWER / Fritz Graf. - CHRISTIAN DIVINATION IN LATE ROMAN GAUL: THE SORTES SANGALLENSES / William E. Klingshirn. - SORTE UNICA PRO CASIBUS PLURIBUS ENOTATA LITERARY TEXTS AND LOT INSCRIPTIONS AS SOURCES FOR ANCIENT KLEROMANCY / Cristiano Grottanelli. - DIVINATION AND LITERARY CRITICISM? / Peter T. Struck. - CHRESMOLOGUES AND MANTEIS: INDEPENDENT DIVINERS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORITY / John Dillery. - VOICES, BOOKS, AND DREAMS: THE DIVERSIFICATION OF DIVINATION MEDIA IN LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT / David Frankfurter. - NECROMANCY GOES UNDERGROUND: THE DISGUISE OF SKULL- AND CORPSE-DIVINATION IN THE PARIS MAGICAL PAPYRI (PGM IV 1928-2144) / Christopher A. Faraone. - DELPHI AND THE DEAD / Sarah Iles Johnston. - INDEX LOCORUM / Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck. - SUBJECT INDEX / Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck. Includes bibliographical references and index. ||| Divination - Weissagung - [oR-Doki | DOK | ] 725 g. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001284

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Sarah Iles Johnston received her doctorate from Cornell University in 1987 and is Professor of Greek & Latin and of Religious Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the General Editor of Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Harvard University Press, 2004) and the author of Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (University of California Press, 1999). She is currently writing a book on the "Orphic" gold tablets with Fritz Graf.
Peter T. Struck, Ph.D. (1997), University of Chicago, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is titled Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts (Princeton University Press, 2004). He is currently at work on a project that takes a semiotic approach to ancient Greek theories of divination.