Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

Auteur

Crystal Addey is a Lecturer in Classics at University College Cork, Ireland, and a Tutor for the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. She is the author of Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the gods (Routledge 2014).

Contenu

Introduction: Divination and Knowledge in Ancient Greek and Roman Cultures

Crystal Addey

1 The Enigmatic Divine Voice and the Problem of Human Misinterpretation

Julia Kindt

2 Torch-Bearing Plato: Why Reason without the Divine is Not Philosophy After All

Danielle A. Layne

3 "Work With The God": Military Divination and Rational Battle-Planning in Xenophon

Ralph Anderson

4 Divination and Decumbiture: Katarchic Astrology and Greek Medicine

Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum

5 Divination and the Kairos in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Culture

Crystal Addey

6 The Pythia as Matter: Plutarch's Scientific Account of Divination

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

7 Divination and Female Sexuality: The Transformation of the Greek Pythia by the Church Fathers

Giulia Pedrucci

8 "Ethnic" Divination in Roman Imperial Literature

Antti Lampinen

9 Apuleius On Divination: Platonic Daimonology and Child-Divination

Leonardo Costantini

10 Astral Symbolism in Theurgic Rites

Marilynn Lawrence