The dissemination of divination in roman republican times

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List of Tables Table. 1.1. Cicero’s typology of divination........................................................... 24 Table 1.2. The relation of modern typologies of divination to Cicero’s................28 Table 3.1. Typology of divination components..................................................... 49 Table 3.2. Examples of impetrative divination...................................................... 50 Table 3.3. Examples of oblative divination........................................................... 52 Table 4.1. Layers of homeostatic regulations........................................................ 54 Table 4.2. Reasons for consultation of diviner among the Sisala.......................... 60 Table 4.3. Reasons for consultation of diviner among the Azande....................... 61 Table 4.5. Paired t-test for Intentional vs. Ritual conditions................................. 74 Table 4.6. Effect size of difference between intentional and ritual conditions......74 Table 4.7 Utility characteristics of divination practices.........................................94 Table 4.9. Overview of studies on prestige and credibility..................................101 Table 7.1. Crisis index......................................................................................... 132 Table 9.1. Utility of Roman divination practices.................................................179 Tabel 9.2. Summary of factors for Roman impetrative divination...................... 181 Table 10.1. Distribution of types of concepts in the prodigy reports from 218-44 BCE......................................................................................................................207 Table 10.2. Distribution of counterintuitive compared to bizarre concepts in the prodigy reports from 218-44 BCE....................................................................... 208 Table 10.3 Amount of counterintuitive and bizarre prodigies per reporting year. ..............................................................................................................................209 6
Acknowledgements Certain parts of this dissertation have been published or are under publication in part or full. Chapter 4 builds on Lisdorf 2007a, 2007b, 2007c. Chapter 5 contains parts of Lisdorf 2007d. Part of chapter 10 builds on a translated version of Lisdorf 2004c and contains parts of Lisdorf 2004a which is copyrighted by Brill Academic Publishers. It is reproduced with permission from the publisher. 7
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direct people in their life. It can
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or potential misfortune or lack of
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Before making blood-brotherhood Bef
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It was argued that emotion was cent
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Figure 4.2. Intentional action It i
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Figure 4.4. Ritualized action in di
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was the counterintuitive agent who
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education. 43 These problems requir
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Credibility 4,5 4 3,5 3 2,5 2 1,5 1
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Clairvoyant, and Astrologist. There
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Materials A booklet similar to the
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Summary The thesis of this chapter
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present existence, as the slogan go
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Let us presently consider how hyper
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1963). Michotte had subjects watch
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another that they were playing agai
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monkeys. There is evidence that in
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Sperber and Wilson programmatically
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humans communicate by producing sig
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Let us consider some examples of th
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Henrich and Gil-White supply precis
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communicator (T.S. Elliot) or a mil
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professors are not routinely attrib
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thought it most likely the main cha
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Chapter 5 - Oblative divination 82
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her life”. 85 In the example the
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in the city. To most modern people
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answer. In oblative divination the
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Figure 6.1. brings together the obs
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questions on how much disease there
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While many good and detailed models
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Unexpected event Figure 6.3. Web of
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Chapter 7 - Research history on Rom
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assumption is that divination, espe
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It can be seen that Latte's as well
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oth shared the same attitude toward
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vastly different views on what legi
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& Scheid 1994; Linder & Scheid 1993
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the observation. If the fear thesis
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Based on the evidence available to
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linear regression analysis was made
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criticism of it. His antiquarian cu
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Post-republican writers Verrius Fla
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M. Servius Honoratus Marius Servius
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The only full description we have o
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called interpretes Iovi, interprete
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All places where auspices should be
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anyhow. There is therefore no reaso
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The credibility value of the greate
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according to Cicero, the point is t
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Utility and Credibility value The a
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History Since it is mentioned in th
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Technique Let us consider public so
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Private sortition Private sortition
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shuffled the lots and drew one 149
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Extispicy is a form of divination w
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public use of extispicy are perform
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(North 1990). In Etruria these indi
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Sibylline books The Sibylline Books
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The word vates can probably be trac
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counterintuitive agent. In all the
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Howevere, there are practices in wh
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Technique Descriptives Credibility
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History Let us see how these observ
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Summary To summarize the conclusion
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as specified in equation 3, but it
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Dissemination Private sortition Pub
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“may the gods avert (bad) omens
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excelled every race and every natio
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calf ran away and spattered many of
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the cultural model of omens, identi
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very widespread 196 and along with
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Although there is great imprecision
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1,2 1 0,4 0,2 0 Omen words in Greek
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e distinguished: nuntiatio, relatio
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ating whether a prodigy involved a
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Year BCE 218-190 189-162 160-132 13
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distinction between public and priv
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two seem to have been used in the c
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8) Sacrificia vetusta occultaque mi
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The actual interpretations we hear
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this type among the prodigia, where
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consideration here the cultural mod
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encounter of people using it to a g
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action. It was argued that these re
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investigate the dissemination of di
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practices that did not survive were
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divination. At the same time the op
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Appendix 1 The Kurabi among the Mwa
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Appendix 2 The Guzul In Central Aus
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Appendix 4 Roman Words Omen Prodigi
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Theocritus 21261 1.88 1.88 0 0 0.32
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Moon fell down Capua Goats got wool
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Note: *this is possibly not a separ
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Temple of Ceres struck by lightning
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Sheep with two heads born Suessa Pi
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12 year old hermaphrodite discovere
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Cows were talking Campania Bronze c
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*This prodigy may be the same as th
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156 Storm destroys sacred places on
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* Since the Graecostasis was right
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An owl was seen on the Capitol Roma
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* Rasmussen counts as two (Rasmusse
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Sun formed a disc like a shield at
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Two calfs were found in the entrail
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Fire in the sky Note: While this pr
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Tornado ripped of roofs Bridge coll
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Doors to the temple of Fortuna open
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Appendix 6 Examples of counterintui
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Luterbacher, F. 1967: Der Prodigien
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Schilling, R. 1979: "A propos des "
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Taylor, L. R. 1949: Party Politics
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Woodward, J. 2000: "Explanation and
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Oprindeligt blev divination forklar
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menneskelig perception eller ræson
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I kapitel 6 sammenlignes observatio
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