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1 online resource (487 pages) |
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Omens and Oracles- Front Cover; Omens and Oracles; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1: Ancient Greek writings on divination; The vocabulary of Greek divination; Diviners interpreting omens and oracles; Greek attitudes to divination; Books on divination; Stoic works on divination; Cicero: de divinatione; Melampous: On Divination by Twitchings and Birthmarks; Collections of oracles; Bakis; Antiphon: The first dream manual; Aristotle and other philosophers' writings on dreams; Diogenes of Oinoanda: Concerning Dreams |
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Philo Judaeus, Synesios of Cyrene and MacrobiusArtemidoros of Daldis: The Oneirokritika; Byzantine reception of ancient Greek dream manuals; Porphyry: Philosophy from Oracles; Preserving the pagan oracles: The Tübingen Theosophy; Sibylline Oracles; Prophecy in the Palatine Anthology; Philogelos: 'Did you hear the joke about the stupid diviner?'; Herodotos on the accuracy of oracles; Thucydides' intellectual approach to oracles; Xenophon on omens; 'Over-given' to divination; Iconography; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Diviners of epic sagas; Teiresias 'Reader of Portents' |
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'Orpheus and the Sirens'Mopsos and Amphilochos: Greek diviners in the East; Melampous: Ancestral mantis; 'Much-knowing' Polyidos; Kalchas: Best of diviners; Kassandra and her idle prophecies; 'Cheiron the mantis who knows well the song of Apollo'; Herophile the Sibyl: 'the first woman to sing oracles'; Phineus, Harpies and the indiscriminate use of mantosyne; Prophecy from the ocean depths: Glaukos; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Diviners in the historical narrative; Chresmologoi: The singers of oracles; The mantis and his role; Teisamenos and the Iamidai; Hegesistratos and the Telliadai |
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The KlytiadaiDeiphonos: Establishing mantic credentials; Euenios: 'Natural' mantike; The origins of manteis; Honours for manteis; Financial rewards; Professional risks; Manteis and the Athenian state: Hierokles and Lampon; Manteis as healers?; The mantis as warrior; Mantic self-prediction of their own death; 'A plot of the most terrible kind'; Diotima and female diviners; Belly-talking diviners (engastrimanteis); Talking heads; Of oracles on skins: Human and animal; Epimenides the 'most foreknowing'; Alexander of Abonouteichos and his prophetic serpent |
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Aristander of Telmessos: Alexander the Great and his manteisConclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: 'Interpreting omens from birds'; Poseidippos: Oionoskopika (omens from birds); Eagles in the Homeric poems; Ominous ravens and Alexander the Great; The ominous status of the raven and eagle; A veritable menagerie of wingéd birds; 'Positions of birds, their calls, and their flight'; Ornithomanteia as a techne; An ornithoskopic seat; For the flapping of wings was not without meaning; Eagle omens and the sarcophagi of Klazomenai; Herons: A brassard and a vase; Eagles and the iconography of battle |
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Sirens: human-headed birds with the art of prophecy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Divination -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Divination.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Religious life and customs
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| Subject |
Greece.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317148951 |
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1317148959 |
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