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- Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
- Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on conventions, editions, and transcriptions
- Reference tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sources
- 3 Theorizing divination
- 4 Practitioners
- 5 Methods
- 6 The questions
- 7 Consultors
- 8 Mantic narratives
- 9 Divination and systematic inquiry
- 10 Conclusions
- Glossary
- Appendix A Inscriptional evidence for Delphic oracles
- Appendix B The sexagenary cycle
- Appendix C Narrow Sample of Delphic responses
- Appendix D SelectedZuo zhuanprognostications
- Appendix E The Baoshan divinations
- Appendix F Selections from the Shuihudi daybooks
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
- Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on conventions, editions, and transcriptions
- Reference tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sources
- 3 Theorizing divination
- 4 Practitioners
- 5 Methods
- 6 The questions
- 7 Consultors
- 8 Mantic narratives
- 9 Divination and systematic inquiry
- 10 Conclusions
- Glossary
- Appendix A Inscriptional evidence for Delphic oracles
- Appendix B The sexagenary cycle
- Appendix C Narrow Sample of Delphic responses
- Appendix D SelectedZuo zhuanprognostications
- Appendix E The Baoshan divinations
- Appendix F Selections from the Shuihudi daybooks
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece , pp. 128 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013