Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination

by Sarah Iles Johnston

This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900428334X
• ISBN13: 9789004283343
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"