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Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
Lisa Raphals
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Description for Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
hardcover. This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity. Num Pages: 496 pages, 26 b/w illus. 3 maps 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA1; HRKN; HRKP; HRLF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 252 x 176 x 28. Weight in Grams: 16.
Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rhetorical and political narratives, and its role in the development of systematic philosophical and scientific inquiry. She explores too the important similarities, differences and synergies between ... Read more
Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rhetorical and political narratives, and its role in the development of systematic philosophical and scientific inquiry. She explores too the important similarities, differences and synergies between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107010758
SKU
V9781107010758
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Ref
99-10
About Lisa Raphals
Lisa Raphals is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature in the Philosophy Department of the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece (1992), Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China ... Read more
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