Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context

Beerden, K. (2013)

Doctoral Thesis

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.

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• Risk
• Uncertainty
• Institutionalization
• Past, present and future
• Comparativism
• Mesopotamia
• Rome
• Ancient Greece
• Religion
• Divination

• All authors: Beerden, K.
• Supervisor: Ligt, L. de
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
• Date: 2013-02-14
• Court: LEI Universiteit Leiden