Magic and Divination in the Ancient WorldLeda Jean Ciraolo, Jonathan Lee Seidel This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon. |
Contents
Soul Emplacements in Ancient Mesopotamian Funerary Rituals | 1 |
Stories of Divinatory Interpretation | 7 |
Delineating Political Location | 41 |
Hittite Oracles | 57 |
Coffin Text 103 in Context | 83 |
Necromancy in Ancient Egypt | 89 |
Necromantic Praxis in the Midrash on the Seance at En Dor | 97 |
Under Homers Spell | 107 |
Magic and Literary Theory in Late Antiquity | 1 |
Persons of Power and their Communities | 11 |
Index of Sources | |
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