Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)

Annotation This Book Thoroughly Revisits Divination As A Central Phenomenon In The Lives Of Ancient Greeks, Romans, And Egyptians. It Collects Studies From Many Periods In Graeco-roman History, From The Archaic Period To The Late Roman, And Touches On Many Different Areas Of This Rich Topic, Including Treatments Of Dice Oracles, Sortition In Both Pagan And Christian Contexts, The Overlap Between Divination And Other Interpretive Practices In Antiquity, The Fortunes Of Independent Diviners, The Activity Of Delphi In Ordering Relations With The Dead, The Role Of Egyptian Cult Centers In Divinatory Practices, And The Surreptitious Survival Of Recipes For Divination By Corpses. It Also Reflects A Ranges Of Methodologies, Drawn From Anthropology, History Of Religions, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, And Archaeology, Epigraphy, And Paleography. It Will Be Of Particular Interest To Scholars And Student Of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. 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. Edited By Sarah Iles Johnston And Peter T. Struck. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Introduction: Divining Divination (Sarah Iles Johnston) 7 Signs, Commands, and Knowledge: Ancient Divination between Enigma and Epiphany (Walter Burkert) 35 Rolling the Dice for an Answer (Fritz Graf) 57 Christian Divination in Late Roman Gaul: the Sortes Sangallenses (William E. Klingshirn) 105 Sorte unica pro casibus pluribus enotata: Literary Texts and Lot Inscriptions as Sources for Ancient Kleromancy (Cristiano Grottanelli) 135 Divination and Literary Criticism? (Peter T. Struck) 153 Chresmologues and Manteis: Independent Diviners and the Problem of Authority (John Dillery) 173 Voices, Books, and Dreams: The Diversification of Divination Media in Late Antique Egypt (David Frankfurter) 239 Necromancy Goes Underground: The Disguise of Skull- and Corpse-Divination in the Paris Magical Papyri (PGM IV 1928-2144) (Christopher A. Faraone) 261 Delphi and the Dead (Sarah Iles Johnston) 289 Index Locorum 313 Subject Index 323 This book is a collection of studies by scholars Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and early Christian religions on the topic of divination. Its topics range from necromancy to dice rolling, free-lance diviners to Delphi, and includes treatments from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity.