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Mantikê : studies in ancient divination / edited by Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck - Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 2005 - 322 p. ; 25 cm. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,  155 .

Introduction : 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.

ISBN: 97890041449729004144978

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Divination.Body, mind, spirit Divination Fortune Telling.Body, mind, spirit Prophecy.

LC Class. No.: BF1761 / .M36 2005