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, 2022 Herodotus was a firm believer in divination (Gk. μαντική, mantikē), particularly in its oracular form.
Dillon, Matthew
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Deities among Tibetan Divination Texts [PDF]
, 2018 岩尾一史・池田巧編京都大学人文科学研究所共同研究報告Among the Old Tibetan divination texts from the Dunhuang cave and other sites along the Silk Road in East Turkestan, dice divination texts are predominant in number and in diversity of provenance.
西田, 愛
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, 2004 Pirenne-Delforge Vinciane. Auguste BOUCHÉ-LECLERCQ, Histoire de la divination dans l'Antiquité. Divination hellénique et divination italique. Paris, Leroux, 1879-1882. . In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 73, 2004. pp.
Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane
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, 2003 Debord Pierre. Bouché-Leclercq (Α.), Histoire de la divination dans l'Antiquité. Divination hellénique et divination italique, 2003. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 105, 2003, n°2.
Debord, Pierre
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, 2017 This chapter argues that Iamblichus draws a distinction between two opposed types of divination: on the one hand, ‘true’ or ‘divine’ or ‘authentic’ divination, which is anchored solely to divine power; on the other, ‘non-divine’ divination, which is ...
Peter T. Struck
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, 2005 Meurant Alain. Bouché-Leclercq (Auguste). Histoire de la divination dans l'Antiquité. Divination hellénique et divination italique.. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 83, fasc. 1, 2005. Antiquité - Oudheid.
Meurant, Alain
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, 2014 This chapter examines the role of animals in divination in ancient times. It discusses ancient observers\u27 interpretaion of signs coming from instinctive animal behaviour and from the structure of animal body parts.
Struck, Peter T
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Divination and Confucian exegesis
, 1999 Exegesis of the Confucian classics, especially of the Changes Classic (I-Ching) and the Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch'un-ch'iu), is connected to the arts of divination in several ways : it may be plausibly traced back to divinatory origins, may perform ...
Henderson, John B.
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Human will and divine will in Roman divination
, 2011 This thesis examines the relationship between human will and divine will as mediated through state divination in the Roman Middle and Late Republic. The nature of ancient evidence for incidents involving state divination, and for divinatory ‘rules’, is scrutinized: the historicity of many divinatory incidents recorded in Roman tradition is defended ...
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Divination and Power: A Multi-regional View of the Development of Oracle Bone Divination in Early China [PDF]
, 2008 Divination is a form of ritual practice frequently employed as an important source of social and political power. Elaborate forms of divination can be crucial to state control, and the power of elaborated divining techniques has widespread influence ...
Flad, Rowan
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