Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece

by Lisa Raphals

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107010756
• ISBN13: 9781107010758
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 9.7"