Research Catalog

Title

Divination and prophecy in the ancient Greek world / edited by Roger D. Woodard.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

Woodard, Roger D.

Description

x, 319 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This volume examines the phenomena of ancient Greek prophecy and divination. With contributions from a cast of distinguished, international scholars, it offers fresh perspectives and interpretations of key aspects of these practices. Considering issues such as comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality, the volume demonstrates their relevance to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices. The volume also shows how multi- and interdisciplinary approaches can be applied to a range of topics, from an examination of the very inception of Greek divination, explored within the frame of more archaic cult ideas, through emic elaboration of divinatory practice in the Archaic and Classical periods, to the consideration of intentional manipulation of prophecy, as depicted in Hellenistic and Imperial Roman sources. Collectively, the essays deepen our understanding of ancient Greek prophecy by offering insights into divinition astéhknē, the centrality or marginality of Delphi and the Pythic priestess, prophetic ambiguity, and cognition, including cognitive dissonance"--

Subject

• To 1500
• Divination > Greece > History > To 1500
• Divination
• Greece > Religious life and customs
• Greece

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-312) and index.

Contents

General introduction / John J. Peradotto -- 1. Greek divination as the transformation of an Indo-European European process / Roger D. Woodard -- 2. On divinatory practices and la raison des signes in classical Greek / Claude Calame -- 3. Oracle and client / Robert Parker -- 4. Oracular failure in ancient Greek culture / Esther Eidinow -- 5. The dynamism of mouvance in the pronouncements of the Delphic Oracle / Gregory Nagy -- 6. Decentralising Delphi: predictive oracles, local knowledge and social memory / Maurizio Giangiulio -- 7. Oracular tales before historiography / Nino Luraghi -- 8. Omens and portents foretelling victory and defeat: ontological, literary, and cognitive perspectives / Michael A. Flower -- 9. The use of divination by Macedonian kings / F.S. Naiden -- 19. False prophets and fake prophets in Lucian / Dana Fields -- 11. Afterword / Roger D. Woodard.

Call Number

JFE 23-551

ISBN

• 9781009221610
• 1009221612
• 9781009221603
• 1009221604

LCCN

2022036167

OCLC

1343870118

Title

Divination and prophecy in the ancient Greek world / edited by Roger D. Woodard.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-312) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Woodard, Roger D., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Divination and prophecy in the ancient Greek world Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009221597 (DLC) 2022036168

Research Call Number

JFE 23-551