Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·      divination in society

    ·      magician and client

    ·      theories of divination

    ·      mechanics of divination

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 7

    ·      Turner, Divination as a phase in a social process

    ·      Luck, Divination texts (intro optional)

    ·      PGM I 262-347, IV 930-1114, IV 3209-3254, VII 348-358, VII 540-78, VII 740-55, VII 795-845, VIII 64-110

    ·      Ogden 144-155, 160, 164, 30, 36, 112

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·      Collins, Mapping the Entrails

    ·      Dillery, Chresmologues and Manteis

    ·      Gordon, Reporting the Marvellous

    ·      Graf, Magic and Divination

    ·      Manetti, Greek Divination

    ·      Struck, Divination and the History of Surplus Knowledge

    ·      PGM I 1-41, II 1-64 II 65-184, III 187-262, III 263-75, III 282-409, III 424-66, IV 3086-3124, V 172-212, VII 1-148, VII 319-34, VII 335-47, VII 359-69, VII 664-85, VII 703-726, VII 727-739, VII 1009-16.

    ·      Iamblichus, De Mysteriis III.11-22

    ·      Oracles of Astrampsychos