Divination and prediction in early China and ancient Greece / Lisa Raphals.
2013
BL613 .R37 2013
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Title
Divination and prediction in early China and ancient Greece / Lisa Raphals.
Author
Raphals, Lisa Ann, 1951-
ISBN
9781107010758
9781107290105 (electronic book)
9781107290105 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (500 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
BL613 .R37 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
292.3/2
Summary
"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 and political narratives, and its role in the development of systematic philosophical and scientific inquiry. She explores too the important similarities, differences and synergies between Greek and Chinese divinatory systems, providing important comparative evidence to reassess Greek oracular divination"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources; 3. Theorizing divination; 4. Practitioners; 5. Methods; 6. The questions; 7. Consultors; 8. Mantic narratives; 9. Divination and systematic thought; 10. Conclusions; 11. Glossary; 12. Appendices.