The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry

IF 0.7 2区历史学 0 CLASSICS

CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1086/721576

Amit Baratz

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Abstract

This article offers an analysis of a neglected aspect of divination in Archaic Greek literature. It aims to demonstrate that often divination stems from a self-contained ability to obtain hidden knowledge irrespective of the gods. In the human realm, seers prophesy not by divine inspiration or through reading divine signs, but by their own autonomous prophetic faculty. In the divine realm, the gods use various means of divination to obtain knowledge of what lies above and beyond them. Lastly, nature is conceived as possessing independent mantic resources of its own. The conclusion explains how these three phenomena developed from one essential religious conception.

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古诗中占卜的根源

本文分析了古希腊文学中被忽视的一个占卜方面。它的目的是证明，占卜往往源于一种独立的能力，可以获得隐藏的知识，而不管神是什么。在人类领域，先知预言不是通过神圣的灵感或通过阅读神圣的迹象，而是通过他们自己自主的预言能力。在神圣的领域里，神使用各种占卜的方法来获得超越他们的知识。最后，自然被认为拥有自己独立的浪漫资源。结语部分解释了这三种现象是如何从一个基本的宗教观念发展而来的。

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CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY CLASSICS-

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