The dissemination of divination in roman republican times

List of Figures
Figure 3.1. Types of knowledge acquisition
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Figure 3.2. Communication with a Counter Intuitive Agent................................. 49
Figure 4.2. Intentional action................................................................................. 65
Figure 4.3. Peter eats an apple............................................................................... 65
Figure 4.4. Ritualized action in divination.............................................................67
Figure 4.5. Coin flip to decide where to go............................................................68
Figure 4.6a Averages for the Kurabi story ............................................................73
Figure 4.6b Averages for the Dendrologist story...................................................73
Figure 4.6c Averages for the Banban story............................................................73
Figure 4.7 Choice of diviner based on the divination technique employed...........78
Figure 4.8. Choice of diviner based on the prestige of the god involved............ 103
Figure 6.1. Cognitive basis of divination.............................................................112
Figure 6.2. Web of Causation for dissemination of a given divination practice..118
Figure 6.3. Web of Causation for the dissemination and resilience of omens.....119
Figure 7.1. Relation between degree of crisis and number of prodigies..............133
Figure 7.2. Relation between expiations and degree of crisis.............................136
Figure 9.1. Relations between relevant variables for dissemination of a divination
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Figure 9.2. Probability of survival of a divination practice................................. 187
Figure 9.3. Survival of divination practices.........................................................188
Figure 9.4. Survival of named divination practices ............................................ 189
Figure 10.1. Cultural model for conceptualization of omens ..............................194
Figure 10.2. Cultural model of omens with examples......................................... 196
Figure 10.3. Omen words in Latin....................................................................... 198
Figure 10.4. Omen words in Greek ..................................................................200
Figure 10.5. Frequency of omen words in Greek and Latin .............................. 201
Figure 10.7. Omen words in Greek and Roman Rhetoric....................................203
Figure 10.8. Correlation between number of accepted prodigies and distance... 213
Figure 10.9. The cultural model of omens as seen in De Responso Haruspicum218
Figure 10.10. Dissemination of omens................................................................ 222
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