Negotiating, Communicating, Relating: Approaches to Ancient Divination.

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Negotiating, Communicating, Relating: Approaches to Ancient Divination.

London, 20-22 July 2015.

This conference explores divination in antiquity, with the aim of moving beyond pragmatic and positivist assumptions. The papers will re-examine what ancient people thought they were doing through divination, to see what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practiced. The papers will cover Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Chinese divination, and the themes will include the beliefs, anxieties and hopes that divination was used to address; the limits of human control of divinatory practice and outcomes; perceptions of the nature of the gods addressed through divination; and the human-divine relationships that divination created and/or sustained.

Date: 20-22 July 2015

Place: G22/26, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, UK

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