Magic and Divination in the Ancient World
by Leda Ciraolo, Jonathan Seidel, Leda Jean Ciraolo & Jonathan Lee Seidel
- First published:
- 21st century
- Language: English
This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Ritual magic and grimoires.
Controlled discovery queries from wellcome matched “ritual magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “Magic” in the edition title.
- “ritual magic”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Magic”· in title
- “Magic”· in subject
- “Magic”· in edition title
Controlled discovery queries from openalex and wellcome matched “divination”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the title, “Divination” in the description, “Divination” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “divination”· via OpenAlex
- “divination”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Divination”· in title
- “Divination”· in description
- “Divination”· in subject
- “Divination”· in edition title
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Editions
2 editions cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OpenAlex scholarly book record | 2002-01-01 | — | English | — | Unknown | |
Wellcome Collection bibliographic record xii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | 2002 | Brill :; Styx | English |
| Catalog record |
Subjects
- History
- Social Sciences
- Philosophy
- Arts and Humanities
- Art
- Magic
- Divination
- Literature
- Archeology
- Epistemology
- Religious studies
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Ancient history
- Classics
- Astronomy
- MAGIC (telescope)
- Poetry
- fortune-telling
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Ancient
- Phenomenon
- Late antiquity
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient Near East History
- Poetics
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