Divination in Hellenism | HELLENISM 101

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Link to Homeric Oracle:
https://www.hellenion.org/homericoracle/

Link to Alphabet Oracle:
http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/GAO.html

Link to statue oracle:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufI-...

PRIMARY SOURCES:
• On Divination by Cicero
• Homeric Hymn to Hermes
• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
• Works and Days by Hesiod
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Orphic Hymn 51 to the Nymphs
• Pausanias' Guide to Greece Book 3
• Phaedrus by Plato
• On the Heaves by Aristotle
• Confessions by Augustine
• Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus
• The Greek Magical Papyri

SECONDARY SOURCES:
• Ancient Greek Divination by Sarah Iles Johnston
• Ancient Studies in Divination by Johnston, Burkert et al

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 What is and why divination?
4:10 Divination in the Classical Age
5:50 How did they think divination worked?
9:35 "Low" vs "High" Divination
10:45 Types of Divination
11:02 Augury
12:45 Entrail reading
13:56 Dreams
15:23 Dice & Lots
20:15 Scrying
24:22 Nature & Chance happenings
25:46 What about astrology and necromancy?
27:44 Application to the modern age
30:44 *Bonus Divination by art
32:10 Conclusion