{"product_id":"ancient-divination-and-experience-9780198844549","title":"Ancient Divination and Experience","description":"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The\u003cbr\u003echapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of\u003cbr\u003edivination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create\/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is\u003cbr\u003epaid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that\u003cbr\u003edivination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198844549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor in Latin and Roman Social\/Religious History, University of Calgary\u003c\/em\u003e, Esther Eidinow, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Ancient History, University of Bristol\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLindsay G. Driediger-Murphy is Associate Professor in Latin and Roman Social\/Religious History at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interests include Roman divination, ancient and modern conceptualizations of religion, interactions between religions in antiquity, and Greek and Latin historiography. She has published in such journals as \u003cem\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZPE\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGRBS\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as authoring a monograph published by Oxford University Press, \u003cem\u003eRoman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEsther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research focuses on ancient Greek culture, especially religion and magic, and she is particularly interested in anthropological and cognitive approaches to these areas. She is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Cognitive Historiography\u003c\/em\u003e. As well as numerous articles, her publications include \u003cem\u003eOracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2007), \u003cem\u003eLuck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e (IB Tauris, 2010), and \u003cem\u003eEnvy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932118990963,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_45dad433-4adc-473c-9f8f-9ef6f58442db.jpg?v=1647790560","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ancient-divination-and-experience-9780198844549","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}