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 | #1207386 in Books |  Peter T Struck |  2016-07-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.00 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A surprising take on how the ancient Greeks saw divination|By Massimo Pigliucci|Peter Struck presents a scholarly, yet eminently accessible, treatment of the concept of divination in Ancient Greece. It is far too easy to dismiss the practice today as nothing more than superstition among preliterate people. Except that those people were highly literate, and included some of the| |"The core of this beautifully researched and lucidly argued book is a study of the most important and influential philosophical analyses of divination from the ancient world."--Brad Inwood, Times Literary Supplement

"An absorbing work

Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination―the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reveals instead that such phenomena provoked an entirely different accounting from the ancient philosophers. These phi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity   |  Peter T. Struck.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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