Prophets and Profits
Prophets and Profits
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Author(s): Evans, Richard J.
ISBN No.: 9780367594619
Pages: 268
Year: 202008
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 67.92
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Chapter 1: Introduction Daniel Ogden Chapter 2: Was Didyma (Branchidae) a False Prophet? Richard Evans Chapter 3: 'Who Wrote Greek Curse Tablets?' Olivier Dufault Chapter 4: A Story of Blood, Guts and Guesswork: Synthetic Reasoning in Classical Greek Divination Ralph Anderson Chapter 5: Value-Added Divination at Dodona Philip Bosman Chapter 6: Divination and Profit in the Roman World Federico Santangelo Chapter 7: Profiting from Prophecy: Q. Marcius Rex and the Construction of the Aqua Marcia Alex Nice Chapter 8: Valerius Maximus and the Language of Stars Jeffrey Murray Chapter 9: "Arrows Fletched from Our Own Wings": Discovering a 'Delphi of the Mind' in the Writings of the Early Church Fathers Daniel Crosby Chapter 10: Egyptian Necromancy in Heliodorus Aethiopica (6.12-15) and The Witch of Endor Narrative (1 Sam 28) John Hilton Chapter 11: Sosipatra: Prophetess, Philosopher and Theurgist: Reflections on Divination and Epistemology in Late Antiquity Crystal Addey Chapter 12: One Oracle too Many? Corippus and Procopius on Female Prophecy in North Africa Martine de Marre Chapter 13: Deconstructing Divination: Superstition, Anticlericalism, and Cicero's De Divinatione in Enlightenment England Katherine East Chapter 14: Prophecy and Paul Kruger: Robert Grendon's Appropriation of Greco-Roman Prophets and Prophetic Devices in his South African Epic, Paul Kruger's Dream Szerdi Nagy Chapter 15: Cassandra Prophesies Back: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Firebrand Elke Steinmeyer.


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