Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World

In the first chapter, "Greek Divination as the Transformation of an Indo-European Process," R. Woodard examines the role of cognitive approach in Greek divination in a broad Indo-European perspective. Based on similarities between the Sanskrit raddhand the Greek aisthnomai, he argues that the response given by an oracle involves an intellectual engagement with the divinatory signal, which reflects ancient Indo-European cult structures. -C. Calame in "On Divinatory Practices and la raison des signes in Classical Greece" contests the idea of a sharp distinction between inspired and artificial divination. Starting with the Prometheus Bound, the A. argues that divination

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