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  • Week IX (October 26 & 28)  Divination

    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, 3209-3254; VII 348-358, 540-78, 740-55, 795-845; VIII 64-110

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

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       PGM I 1-41; II 1-64, 65-184; III 187-262, 263-75, 282-409, 424-66; IV 3086-3124; V 172-212, VII 1-148, 319-34, 335-47, 359-69, 664-85, 703-726, 727-739, 1009-16
    • ·       Iamblichus, De Mysteriis III.11-22
    • ·       Oracles of Astrampsychos
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    • ·       Collins, Mapping the Entrails
    • ·       Dillery, Chresmologues and Manteis
    • ·       Flower, Consulting the Oracle at Dodona
    • ·       Gordon, Reporting the Marvellous
    • ·       Graf, Magic and Divination
    • ·       Manetti, Greek Divination
    • ·       Struck, Divination and the History of Surplus Knowledge
    • ·       Turner, Divination as a phase in a social process