By Sarah Iles Johnston
- Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners, selfmade tools of foretelling the longer term, magical divinatory ideas, and masses more
- Illustrates how the examine of divination illuminates the mentalities of historical Greek religions and societies
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