Worlds Full of Signs —— Ancient Greek Divination in Context

----- 充满迹象的世界：语境中的古希腊占卜

ISBN: 9789004252394 出版年：2013 页码：260 Kim Beerden Brill

This dissertation compares divination in ancient Greece to divinatory practices in Republican Rome and Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia. Divination is the human production and interpretation of signs which were thought to have come from the supernatural – the signs could be concerned with past, present or future. The process of divination consists of three elements: homo divinans, sign and text. These three elements are systematically compared, after which divination is discussed in its relation to time and uncertainty.