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human gratitude, but it also inaugurates the present world order, as subsequently humanity was created. For the Greeks, then, sa ...
enormous span of time that man (not woman) has been a hunter, and the prestige that hunting and the eating of meat has carried v ...
Vernant and his pupils have indeed successfully analyzed the ideological presupposi- tions of Greek sacrifice, in particular its ...
gods and, consequently, they were excluded from sacrifice, although exceptions remained possible. In Artemis’ sanctuary at Kalap ...
CHAPTER NINE Divination Pierre Bonnechere Man has always tried to interrogate the gods. Only they in their omniscience can tell ...
were inspired by the gods: agriculture was revealed by Demeter; the techniques and the discoveries associated with the intellect ...
Between Truth and Lie: The Ambiguity of Oracles The reputation of some oracular sanctuaries endured for a thousand years, and th ...
By contrast, at the bottom end of the divination scale languished itinerant diviners, interpreters of oracle collections gathere ...
the course of action dismissed by the Pythia would have brought. The response to a question of the sort ‘‘whetherone will marry’ ...
itself after this one and there is a famine in it, it is naturally under this form that they will make the quotation’’ (2.54.1–3 ...
Bodson 1978). Many cities and sanctuaries, it was said, were founded in a place indicated by an animal-guide (cf. Euripides,Phoe ...
and others again with dice, the rolling of which referred to pre-established sentences in a list of predictions (Brixhe and Hodo ...
For an unknown reason, the interpretation of signs seems to have been almost alien to women, for all that they were inclined to ...
the hands of the god, or of the cure, which would comprise ritual medical procedures, or both. The lists of miracles reminds us ...
The terminology was rather imprecise.Prophe ̄te ̄s(feminineprophe ̄tis) could signify either the man who entered into contact wi ...
between the two mantic types: the tree’s foliage belongs to the inductive type, but the priestesses are presented by Plato as on ...
pax Romana, ‘‘questions. .. bear upon the petty concerns of the individual; one asks whether one should marry, make a certain tr ...
same problem: the role of themanteionwould have varied with the questions put to it, but which are now lost: ‘‘To which gods sho ...
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING Bouche ́-Leclercq 1879–82 remains the only substantial synoptic study of divination in antiquity, but n ...
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