Divination

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Contents 1 Books 2 Public divination 2.1 Auspicia 2.2 Sibylline oracles 2.3 Exticspicy 2.4 Haruspicy 2.5 Foreign oracles 3 Private divination 4 Bibliography 5 References

Books

An Introduction to Roman Religion

John Scheid, Janet Lloyd (Translator). (2003). Indiana University Presss. ISBN 0253216605
English translation of La Religion des Romains (ISBN 2200263775). A must for all those who wish to know what the Religio Romana was and how it was practiced.
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On divination and synchronicity : the psychology of meaningful chance

Marie-Luise von Franz. (1980). Inner City Books. ISBN 0919123023
very useful Jungian study Contributed by Marca Hortensia Maior
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Mantikê : studies in ancient divination

eds, Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.. (2005). Brill. ISBN 9004144978
excellent essays, Friz Graf, sortes, with fine bibliography Contributed by Marca Hortensia Maior
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Public divination

Public divination in the period of the late Republic consisted of a specific set of procedures that were performed by specific individuals under specific circumstances, but always in connection with some public act or situation that affected the whole of the state.

Auspicia

Sibylline oracles

Exticspicy

Haruspicy

Foreign oracles

Private divination

Bibliography

Beard, M., 1986. Cicero and divination: the formation of a Latin discourse JRS 76, 33-46

Brause, Francis Albert, 1875. Librorum de Disciplina Augurali ante Augusti Mortem Scriptorum Reliquiae. A Thesis on the extant literary fragments that describe and/or detail augural practice from before the death of Augustus.

Cicero, M. Tullius. De Divinatione. Online at the Latin Library; 1932 Loeb edition: ISBN 0674991702; 2007 edition with commentary: Book 1, ISBN 0199297924.

Denyer, N., 1985. The case against divination: an examination of Cicero's de Divinatione. PCPhS 211, n.s. 31, 1-10

Krostenko, B., 2000. Beyond (Dis)belief: Rhetorical Form and Religious Symbol in Cicero's de Divinatione. TAPA 130, 353-391.

Linderski, J., 1982. Cicero and Roman divination. La Parola del Passato 37, 12-38

Pease, A.S., 1920. Cicero. De Divinatione Libri Duo. Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 6, Urbana, Illinois.

Scheid, John and Lloyd, Janet (Trans.), 2003. An Introduction to Roman Religion. ISBN 0253216605 English translation of La Religion des Romains (ISBN 2200263775).

Schofield, M., 1986. Cicero for and against divination JRS 76, 47-65

References