Divination and prediction in early China and ancient Greece / Lisa Raphals.

"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...

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Main Author: Raphals, Lisa Ann, 1951-
Language:Multiple languages
Published: United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Physical Description:xxviii, 470 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book

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520 |a "This book is an exploration of divination and prediction in Chinese and Greek antiquity, but it is also a part of two ongoing interdisciplinary and intercultural explorations that have informed my scholarly work. One is the engagement between the disciplines of philosophy and history from a perspective also informed by anthropology. The other is the comparative study of Chinese and Greek antiquity from a shifting viewpoint informed by all three disciplines"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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