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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2013
      17 October 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511863233
      9781107010758
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511863233
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.15kg, 496 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, East Asian History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History
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    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, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rhetorical and political narratives, and its role in the development of systematic philosophical and scientific inquiry. She explores too the important similarities, differences and synergies between Greek and Chinese divinatory systems, providing important comparative evidence to reassess Greek oracular divination.

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