Magic and divination in the ancient world / edited by Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel.

Leiden : Brill : Styx, 2002.

xii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

"Proceedings of the conference on Magic and Divination in the Ancient World held at the University of California at Berkeley in February 1994"--P. vii.

Soul emplacements in ancient Mesopotamian funerary rituals / Joann Scurlock -- A severed head laughed: stories of divinatory interpretation / Ann Kessler Guinan -- Inquiring for the state in the ancient Near East: delineating political location / Joel Sweek -- Hittite oracles / Richard Beal -- Oracle by image: Coffin Text 103 in context / John Gee -- Necromancy in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner -- Necromantic praxis in the Midrash on the seance at En Dor / Jonathan Seidel -- Under Homer's spell / Gregg Schwender -- The poet as conjurer: magic and literary theory in late antiquity / Peter T. Struck -- Persons of power and their communities / Anitra Bingham Kolenkow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.