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  • Week IX (October 27)  Divination

    Topics:

    ·      divination in society

    ·      magician and client

    ·      theories of divination

    ·      mechanics of divination

     

    Greek Readings: PGM IV 3209-3254, VII 348-358, VII 740-55, VII 795-845, VIII 64-110; Homer, Odyssey xi.13-49 & Kestoi of Julius Africanus book 5 = PGM XXIII, Plutarch, De E 387bc

     

    Readings:

    ·      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

    ·      Odyssey xi.13 ff & Kestos of Julius Africanus book 5 = PGM XXIII

    ·      Plutarch, De E 387bc

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

     

    ·      Collins, Mapping the Entrails

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 7

    ·      Gordon, Reporting the Marvellous

    ·      Graf, Magic and Divination

    ·      Struck, Divination and the History of Surplus Knowledge

     

    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

     

    ·      Dillery, Chresmologues and Manteis

    ·      Flower, Consulting the Oracle at Dodona

    ·      Manetti, Greek Divination

    ·      Turner, Divination as a phase in a social process