Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

"Explores divination in antiquity from a range of perspectives, looking both at practices and theories and how and why these changed over time. Important for students and academics working in classics, history of philosophy, and history of religion"--

List of contents

Introduction. Part I. Philosophical Perspectives on Divination, Revelation and Prophecy: 1. Theories of prophecy in Philo of Alexandria Elsa Giovanna Simonetti; 2. The Neoplatonic background of a text on prophecy attributed to John Chrysostom Andrei Timotin; 3. 'Revelation' for Christians and pagans and its philosophical allegoresis: intersections within imperial Platonism Ilaria Ramelli; 4. Divination and dialogue in Porphyry and Iamblichus Crystal Addey; Part II. Status, Role and Functions of Human Intermediaries: 5. 'The holiest man ever born': sages, theoi andres and the shaping of late Greek prophecy Claire Hall; 6. Women's access to divine knowledge in late ancient Jewish sources Hanna Tervanotko; 7. Epiphany and divination reconsidered: the case-study of the iamata from imperial Pergamum Georgia Petridou; 8. The true prophet in the pseudo-Clementine homilies Marco Zambon; Part III. Divine Transcendence and Pragmatic Purposes: 9. Revelation and Roman augury Federico Santangelo; 10. 'For thy kingdom is past not away, / Nor thy power from the place thereof hurled': Martianus Capella and a prophylactic oracle for Apollo Chiara Tommasi; 11. No longer does Phoebus have a cabin': Emperor Julian and the fall of the temple in Delphi Aude Busine.

About the author

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at KU Leuven. She is the author of A Perfect Medium? Oracular Divination in the Thought of Plutarch (2017).Claire Hall is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Origen and Prophecy (2021).

Summary

Explores divination in antiquity from a range of perspectives, looking both at practices and theories and how and why these changed over time. Important for students and academics working in classics, history of philosophy, and history of religion.

Product details

• Authors: Elsa Giovanna (Katholieke Universiteit Simonetti
• Assisted by: Claire Hall (Editor), Claire (University of Durham) Hall (Editor), Elsa Giovanna Simonetti (Editor), Elsa Giovanna (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Simonetti (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009328784
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932878-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Europe, Latin, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Judaism, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient religions & mythologies, BCE to c 500 CE, c 1 to c 500 CE, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Judaism: theology, Biblical Greek