Divination and prediction in early China and ancient Greece / / Lisa Raphals [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Raphals Lisa Ann <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 470 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 292.3/2
• Soggetto topico: Divination - China; Divination - Greece
• Classificazione: HIS002000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Divination & Prediction in Early China & Ancient Greece
• Titolo autorizzato: Divination and prediction in early China and ancient Greece
• ISBN: 1-139-88839-0; 1-107-28951-3; 1-107-28905-X; 1-107-29394-4; 1-107-29115-1; 1-107-29010-4; 0-511-86323-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810542403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II