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Divination in Antiquity: Volume 3 of 4: Oracles of Apollo, et al.

by Frank H. Wallis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798866501915
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 348
  • Original Price: USD 29.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 508 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Greece

Divination seeks to know the future in a supernatural way. There were many forms of this ancient science. Most of us know of astrology, or perhaps necromancy, i.e., revelation by the souls of the dead. The author reveals a complex subject which has parts, in equal portion, of philosophy, history, and archaeology. This volume begins the elucidation of the men and women who formed the active and human corps of divination, the priesthoods, oracles, and Sibyls of ancient Greece. Volume I was theory, Volume II is the history of practice, and Volume III continues a survey of practice. Hence, oracles, of Apollo (Delos, Delphi, European Greece, and Asia Minor), Asklepios, Herakles, Death (Ephyra, Periander, Phigalia, Heraklea), Heroes (Trophonios, Aristomenes, Amphiaraos, Hemithea, Mopsos, Amphilochos, Calchas, Podalirios, Protesilaos, Sarpedon, Autolykos, Menestheus, Neryllinos, Glykon), those of Egypt (Isis, Serapis, Besa, Antinous), and Syria (Zeus Kasios, Heliopolis, Hierapolis, Marna, Zeus Panemerios, Jaribolos, Lunus, Aphrodite).

Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (1842-1923) was chair of ancient history at the Sorbonne from 1878 to 1918. Bouché-Leclercq became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1898, and Légion d'honneur 1903.

This is the first and only complete translation into English.

Previous Frank H. Wallis translations include: History of the Roman Emperors. 6 vols. From Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, Histoire des empereurs et des autres princes ...(1690-1732). Institutions of Ancient Rome. From Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (1842-1923), Manuel des Institutions Romaines (Paris, 1886).

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