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The Oxford Handbook of
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ANCIENT
DIVINATION
& EXPERIENCE
edited by
Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
and Esther Eidinow
Driediger-Murphy
and
Eidinow
ANCIENT
DIVINATION
&
EXPERIENCE
Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy is Assistant
Professor in Latin and Roman Social/Religious
History at the University of Calgary.
Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History
at the University of Bristol.
This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people—primarily those in
ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese
cultures—thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us
about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised.The chapters,
authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars,
engage with four shared questions:What kinds of gods do ancient forms of
divination presuppose?What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek
to address?What were the limits of human ‘control’ of divination?What kinds
of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain?The volume as
a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order
to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory
experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-
elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques
could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the
difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to
contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also
exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.
contributors:
Hugh Bowden • Jason P. Davies • Quinton Deeley
Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy • Esther Eidinow • Michael A. Flower
Lisa Maurizio • Scott B. Noegel • Lisa Raphals
Federico Santangelo • Andrew Stiles
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