Rolling Dice for Divination, Gambling and Homeromanteia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22017701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salvatore Costanza (0000-0002-0138-0194, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, corresponding author), Costanza Salvatore (Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , ( ERC Locus Ludi– Fribourg/CH )) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 431-447 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Board Game Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-3311 • E-ISSN: 2183-3311 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/bgs-2022-0015 |
| OpenAlex | W4224879933 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Everyday tools such as dice and knucklebones are associated with gambling and divinatory books founded upon the use of Homeric epics. Papyrological documents about this practice date back to Roman Imperial times. Verses drawn from Iliad and Odyssey were currently assigned to a divinely inspired wisdom. The preface to Homeromanteia shows a link with religious and divinatory ideas current at that time (hilastic invocations, hemeromancy, cledonism)
Art · Dice · Divination · Humanities · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Mantikê
Under Homer’s Spell
Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language, and Civilization
Defining the Sortes Sanctorum
Les jeux dans l’Onomasticon I 30 ; VI 107, 109 ; VII 203- 205 ; IX 94-129 de Pollux
Sorte Unica Pro Casibus Pluribus Enotata Literary Texts and Lot Inscriptions as Sources for Ancient Kleromancy
Hermès et la mantique grecque
Homer The Prophet
Secondhand Homer
Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks
Literate Games
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |