Magic and Divination in the Ancient WorldISBN: 9789004497368Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILLDigital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: International economic relations.; Foreign trade regulation.; Investments Foreign; Human rights.; This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.