Divination and Human Nature - A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity

Zusatztext "This volume is a sophisticated and cogently argued study that clearly develops our understanding of how divination was construed by an influential group of philosophical thinkers in Classical antiquity." ---Jan Haywood, Classical Review Peter T. Struck is the Evan C. Thompson Term Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (Princeton). Klappentext Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination--the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reve Zusammenfassung Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination--the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reve

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• Authors: Peter Struck, Peter T. Struck
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2016
• EAN: 9780691169392
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16939-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Ancient, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Philosophy of religion, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Roman religion and mythology, Roman religion & mythology