Format:
1 online resource (500 pages)
ISBN:
9781107290105
Content:
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Reference tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on conventions, editions, and transcriptions -- Chinese -- Greek and Latin -- Chinese texts and journals -- Greek texts, inscriptions, and journals -- Reference tables -- Comparative time line (dates BCE unless otherwise indicated) -- Chinese dynasties (all dates bce unless indicated) -- Dukes of Lu in the Zuo zhuan -- 1 Introduction -- Divination, rationality, and modernity -- Intellectual contexts -- Form of the inquiry -- Plan of the book -- 2 Sources -- Greek sources -- The literary tradition -- Material and manuscript -- Modern compendia -- Chinese sources -- Chinese transmitted texts -- Material and manuscript sources -- Indirect material evidence -- Sources compared -- Narratives -- Mantic texts -- Procedures and methods -- Divination records -- Conclusion -- Appendix 2.1:: Greek sources for divination -- Apollodorus -- Arrian -- Diodorus Siculus -- Herodotus -- Pausanias -- Pliny -- Plutarch -- Strabo -- Thucydides -- Xenophon -- Appendix 2.2:: Chinese excavated texts -- Shang -- Spring and Autumn -- Warring States -- Qin -- Western Han -- Eastern Han -- Appendix 2.3:: Chinese transmitted texts -- Western Zhou c. 1100-771 -- Eastern Zhou 770-256 -- Warring States 475-222 -- Qin 221-209 bce -- Western Han 206 bce-9 ce -- Eastern Han 25-220 -- Six Dynasties 220-589 -- 3 Theorizing divination -- Divination, Classics, and the social sciences -- Evolutionist frameworks -- The sociological turn -- Divination and comparison -- The Mediterranean context -- Theories of divination in China -- Gushibian historiography -- Nationalism and cultural unity -- Religion and philosophy -- Comparing comparables -- 4 Practitioners -- Chinese mantic experts -- Court officials -- Independent practitioners: marketplace diviners and fangshi -- Greek mantic experts -- The mantis.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107010758
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107010758
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1303612
