Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece

ISBN-13: 9781107010758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 496 str.

Lisa Raphals

Opis

Compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.

Spis treści

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.