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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rhetorical...
Author
Series
Prognostication in history volume Volume 7
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English