Prophets and Profits

Introduction (Ogden); A Poetics of Uncertainty: On the 'Logics' of Oracles (Eidinow); 'Arrows Fletched from Our Own Wings:' The Early Church Fathers and the 'Delphi of the Mind' (Crosby); Value-Added Divination at Dodona (Bosman); Was Didyma (Branchidae) a False Oracle? (Evans); Oracles and Personal Responsibility: A Case Study of Perseus the Fated Murderer (Sansone di Campobianco); Is Euripidean Calchas Reliable? Brief Considerations about Prophecies and True and False Prophets (Perreira); A Story of Blood, Guts and Guesswork: Synthetic Reasoning in Classical Greek Divination (Anderson); Not Just for the Birds: Augury in Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting (Taborski); Divination and Profit in the Roman World (Santangelo); Profits and Prophecy: Q. Marcius Rex and the Construction of the Aqua Marcia (Nice); Valerius Maximus and the Language of Stars (Murray); Sosipatra - Prophetess and Theurgist: Reflections on Divination and Epistemology in Late Antiquity (Addey); Egyptian Necromancy in Heliodorus' Aethiopica (6.12-15) and the Witch of Endor Narrative (1 Sam 28) (Hilton); The Professionalization of Greek Curse Writing in Late Antiquity (Dufault); Deconstructing Divination: Superstition, Anticlericalism and Cicero's De Divinatione in Enlightenment England (East); L'Oracolo (1990)/The Oracle (2005): The Katabasis of Odysseus as Prophetic Action in the Narrative of Present (Frattini); The Reception of the Cassandra Figure in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Novel The Firebrand (1987) (Steinmeyer); Filming the Insights of the Sightless: The Re-emergence of Teiresias in the 1990s (Solomon); The Role of the Oracle in Corippus' Iohannis (de Marre); Prophecy and Paul Kruger: Robert Garland's Appropriation of Graeco-Roman Prophets and Prophetic Devices in his South African Epic, Paul Kruger's Dream (Nagy).