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.

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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).

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Introduction: Divination and Knowledge in Ancient Greek and Roman Cultures 1 The Enigmatic Divine Voice and the Problem of Human Misinterpretation 2 Torch-Bearing Plato: Why Reason without the Divine is Not Philosophy After All 3 "Work With The God": Military Divination and Rational Battle-Planning in Xenophon 4 Divination and Decumbiture: Katarchic Astrology and Greek Medicine 5 Divination and the Kairos in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Culture 6 The Pythia as Matter: Plutarch's Scientific Account of Divination 7 Divination and Female Sexuality: The Transformation of the Greek Pythia by the Church Fathers 8 "Ethnic" Divination in Roman Imperial Literature 9 Apuleius On Divination: Platonic Daimonology and Child-Divination 10 Astral Symbolism in Theurgic Rites