Section outline

  • 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, IV 3209-3254, VII 348-358, VII 540-78, VII 740-55, VII 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:

    ·       Dillery, Chresmologues and Manteis

    ·       Manetti, Greek Divination

    ·       Turner, Divination as a phase in a social process

    ·       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