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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Notes on contributors 8 Preface 11 Acknowledgements 12 Abbreviations 13 Chapter 1 Introduction 16 Notes 28 Chapter 2 Was Didyma (Branchidae) a false oracle? 31 Introduction 31 The rebellion of Pactyes and an oracular response from Didyma 32 The Ionian War, Aristagoras, Hecataeus and the Branchidae 35 The destruction of Miletus 36 The massacre of the Branchidae 38 Conclusion 39 Notes 41 Chapter 3 Who wrote Greek curse tablets? 46 Ancient Greek literacy 48 Literary sources and curse tablets 50 The social distribution of curse writers and epigraphic evidence 52 Professional curse writing and epigraphic evidence 56 Conclusion 58 Notes 60 Chapter 4 A story of blood, guts and guesswork: Synthetic reasoning in classical Greek divination 65 Notes 77 Chapter 5 Value-added divination at Dodona 80 Introduction 80 Dodona’s reputation: age, deity, location 81 The site: archaeological evidence 82 The divination method 83 Explaining Dodona’s esteem 84 Conclusion 87 Notes 87 Chapter 6 Divination and profit in the Roman world 91 Notes 99 Chapter 7 Profiting from prophecy: Q. Marcius Rex and the construction of the Aqua Marcia

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Author

Evans, Richard J

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction