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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01075-8 - Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece Lisa Raphals Index More information Index abstraction, 368 Athens, 107 Acarnania, 308 atomism, 357 Achilles, 102 augurs, 360 adyton, 27, 155 auspice, good and ill, 52, 178, 213, 377, 380 Aeschylus, 21, 104, 105, 111, 115, 281, 305, auspicious days, 10, 182, 185, 211, 213, 249, 306, 365 271, 317 aitia, 325, 327 authenticity of oracles, 14, 189 Alexander, 56, 156, 228, 245, 281, 289, 290, autonomy, 386 292–95, 297 assumes title of Pharaoh, 294 Bagley, Robert, 366 religiosity, 295 Baihu tong, 35, 130 almanac texts, 347 Ban Zhao, 268 Ammon, oracle of Zeus, 21, 23, 293 and Han shu Astronomical Treatise, 339 Amphiaraus, 104, 105, 108 Baoshan, 44, 52, 55, 87, 88, 130, 182, 184, 186, Anaximander, 62, 353 195, 220, 317, 319, 332, 333, 367, 376 animals, 255 number sequences, 333 anomalies, 182, 183, 186, 380 bards, 363 apocrypha (chen wei 讖緯), 40 Barton, Tamsyn, 360 Apollo, 20, 21, 22, 104, 108, 110, 111, 119, 121, Beidou 北斗 see Northern Dipper 158, 163, 281, 282, 313, 325 Bielenstein, Hans, 301 Apollodorus, 21, 56, 103 bingfa, 247 aretē, 292 biographies Aristander, 245, 294 of Empress Deng Sui, 270 Aristonikē, 108, 274 of fangshi, 122, 256 Aristophanes, 109, 119, 281 and mantic narratives, 281 Aristotle, 22, 120, 160, 353, 356, 357, 364, 369 of rulers, 292 on oneiromancy, 356 Bo Le 伯樂, 97, 122, 144, 351 Arrian, 56 Book of the Generation of the Fetus, 139, 319 Asclepian temples, 25, 117, 157, 217 Bouché-Leclercq, Auguste, 4, 13, 63, 149–50, female consultors, 264–65 152, 161, 356, 384 medicine, 321 Bowden, Hugh, 54, 68, 247, 309 Asclepius, 23, 53, 117, 157, 194, 220, 325 Branchidae, 121, 156 astralagoi,28 broad and narrow sample, definition, 189, 195 astrocalendrics, 101, 128, 161, 181, 185, bronze inscriptions, 366 220, 337 bu 卜 (turtle shell divination), 2 astrology, 360 Buddhism, 7, 14 Roman, 360, 361 Burkert, Walter, 12, 108, 116 Astronomical Bureau, 338 astronomy, 72, 327, 329, 337, 359, 361, 368, 369, Calchas, 102, 103, 105, 106, 125, 245 378 Calendars and Chronologies, 37 Hellenistic, 360 calendric texts, 10 officials, 89 Callias of Elis, 105, 108, 245 asylia, 191 Callisthenes, 153 461 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01075-8 - Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece Lisa Raphals Index More information 462 Index Cambridge School, 65 competition, 85, 86, 99, 122, 124, 375 Carapanos, Constantin, 23 Confucian virtues, 312 Casevitz, Michel, 101 Confucius, 311, 335 Cassandra, 20, 104, 108 cord and hook pattern, 139, 271, 340, 347 catharsis, 326 correlative cosmology, 11, 165, 327, 328, 346, causation, 357 352, 382 Celestial Patterns, 37, 132 and portents, 299 Chaerophon, 61, 196, 355 cosmology, 161, 327, 343, 369 Chang, K. C., 77, 98, 268 and cultural specificity, 385 Chaniotis, Angelos, 247 versus correlative cosmology, 327 Chemla, Karine, 6 cracking, 129 Chen Songchang, 335, 348 bamboo, 173 Chen Wei, 87, 195, 410 bones and shells, 129, 166 Chengpu, battle of, 290 method, 332 childbirth crime, 200 in daybooks, 215 Croesus, 20, 156, 284–86, 313 prognostication, 207 Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, 145 children, 21, 158, 255, 305 curse tablets, 180 legends of malefic, 305 male, 199 Daodejing, 78 mantic questions, 196, 198, 199 Daoism, 78 in Shuihudi daybooks, 206 Daoists, 370 Chong’er see Duke Wen of Jin daybooks, 11, 44, 49, 138, 142, 187, 215, 219, chresmologues, 22, 54, 109, 119, 120, 281 261, 335, 383 Christidis, Anastasios-Ph., 197, 199, 201, 202, desertion, 210 217, 236, 237 illness, 208 Chrysippus, 356, 358 robbers, 209 Chu ci, 37, 303–5 Shuihudi, 203 Chu Shaosun, 182 stars, 211 Chu Silk Manuscript, 44, 47, 347 typology of mantic queries, 204 Chunyu Yi, 98, 270, 326 De Divinatione, 22, 61, 358 Cicero, 1, 12, 16, 22, 61, 63, 96, 104, 149, 165, Decree of Heaven, 283, 303, 315 358, 362, 382 Delphi, 20, 21, 25, 51, 70, 113, 118, 120, 157, citizenship, 244 180, 188, 195, 219, 246, 273, 306 Classic of Horse Physiognomy, 144 oracular consultation days, 110 cledonomancy, 20, 149, 152, 174 and political neutrality, 379 Cleomenes of Sparta, 246 Delphic oracle, 21, 22, 26, 66, 107 cleromancy, 129, 152, 163, 174, 332 literature on, 113 Clytiads, 108 Delphic oracle stories, 280, 282, 283, 295, 315 Codrus painter, 27 Delphic responses, broad and narrow samples, colonization, 281 189 narratives, 281 democracy, 192 oracles, 307, 308 Democritus, 158, 353, 357, 359 comparables, 73, 74, 80, 82, 118, 161, 182, Demosthenes, 194 204, 212, 219, 272, 302, 313, 316, 361, 368, Denyer, Nicholas, 3, 362 372, 373 determinism, 353, 357, 368 intellectual, 381 Detienne, Marcel, 6, 63, 73, 81 social and institutional, 374 Di 帝, 183 comparison, 18, 384, 387 Diaconis, Persi, 167, 367 of China and Greece, 5–7 dice, 346 of contexts, 14 Didyma, 21, 25, 119, 263 Compendium on the Five Phases (Wuxing Ding Jiang, 266 dayi 五行大義), 40 Diodorus Siculus, 56 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01075-8 - Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece Lisa Raphals Index More information Index 463 Diotima of Mantinea, 107 diviners Director of Astronomy, 48 of auspicious days, 92 Director of Divination, 88, 141 Diviner Yan, 287, 291 Director of Incantation, 88 independent, 97 divination, 1–2 itinerant, 105 African, 6, 17, 69, 120, 165, 220, 241, divining blocks, 131 276, 372 do ut des, 219, 316 and authority, 118, 297 Dodona, 20, 21, 23–25, 111–12, 118, 153, 196, books, Greek, 365 276, 365 classification, 16, 61 typology of questions, 197 cloud, 348, 352 Dodona inscriptions, 53, 213, 215, 219, cognitive skills, 163 264, 378 contemporary, 7–9, 258 and daybooks, 204 critiques, 356 Dong Zhongshu, 299 cultural specificity, 2 Dougherty, Carol, 307 definition, 1 Douglas, Mary, 179 as divine communication, 3 dream divination see oneiromancy dream, 16, 157; see also oneiromancy dream typologies, 187, 321 and ethics, 381 dreams, 140, 211, 252, 255, 264, 323, 364 failure, 303, 304 Dubs, Homer, 301 and gender, 275 Duke Huan of Jin, 98 in Greek tragedy, 21 Duke Hui of Jin, 290, 291 hermeneutics, 12, 16, 17 Duke Mu of Qin, 291 Homeric, 102, 173 Duke Wen of Jin, 287 inductive, 161 Duke Xian of Jin, 290, 292 and kingship, 104 Duke Xiang of Shan, 311 and medicine, 325 Dunhuang, 132, 142, 350 Mediterranean context, 147, 165 hemerological manuscripts, 142 methods, 275 Durkheim, Émile, 64 military, 20, 21, 153, 192, 193, 242, 247 Eberhard, Wolfram, 300 official and private, 250 eclipses, 186, 213, 300, 303, 339 in People’s Republic of China, 259, 377 Edelstein, Emma and Ludwig, 26 as performance, 365 Edmunds, Lowell, 295 and political power, 241, 247 Egypt, 157, 294 predictive cycles, 313 Eidinow, Esther, 2, 70, 180, 197, 233 and prognosis, 323 Elvin, Mark, 167, 367 Pythagorean, 354 Empedocles, 107, 354 rhymes, 302, 367 Empress Deng Sui, 296–97 Roman, 151 Empress Lü, 257, 266 royal succession, 257 enkoimēsis, 157 skeptical refutations, 359 Epicureans, 358 and social consensus, 380 Epicurus, 12 social functions, 378 Epidaurus, 23, 53 technical and inspired, 61, 362, 373 epigraphic evidence, 23 and virtue, 371 for Greek divination, 23 and warfare, 246 epilepsy, 322 weather, 134, 183 Epimenides of Crete, 107 by women, 271 epiphanies, 362 zhanbu 占卜,2 ethics, 357, 370, 381 Divination et Rationalité,68 ethnicity, 67 Divination et Rationalité en Chine Ancienne,81 Euripides, 162, 281, 293, 307 divination rods (qian 籤), 131 extispicy, 104, 149, 150, 360 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01075-8 - Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece Lisa Raphals Index More information 464 Index Falkenhausen, Lothar von, 98 Halitherses, 102 family lineages, 84 Han, battle of, 290, 291 Fangmatan, 45, 173 Han Fei, 36 fangshi, 89, 94, 98, 122, 146, 270, 374 Han Gaozu, 96 collected biographies, 94 Han shu Bibliographic Treatise, 31, 32, 89, 90, fangxiangshi 方相氏,89 92, 119, 128, 139, 141, 143, 181, 346, 349, fatalism, 359 375 fate, 11, 13, 293, 353 Han Wen Di, 96 divine destiny, 294 Han Wu Di, 94, 184, 249, 273 Moira, 13, 306 Harper, Donald, 6, 80, 318, 343 Stoic theories, 357 Hartog, François, 71 fate calculation, 272 health, 199 Fenghuangshan, 345 Heaven Stems and Earth Branches see Fever (fan 煩), 318 sexagenary cycle Finley, Moses, 6, 65, 81 Hegesias, 105, 108 Five Agents (wuxing), 137, 139 Hegesistratus of Elis, 108, 289 five colors, 349, 350, 352 heimarmenē, 358 Five Phases, 50, 328, 390 Helenus, 108 Flower, Michael, 85, 116, 119, 123 hemerology, 44, 128, 137, 161, 162, 327, 352, Fontenrose, Joseph, 25, 27, 29, 54, 67, 69, 111, 368, 379 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 155, 156, 188, 189, hepatoscopy, 175, 359 190, 191, 228, 250, 252, 263, 281, 399 Heraclitus, 13, 104, 109, 353 four regions (fang 方), 183 hermeneutics, 177, 314, 361, 367 free will, 307 Herodotus, 20, 54, 57, 105, 107, 112, 153, 156, freedom (eleutheria), 201 189, 192, 244, 273, 274, 283, 288, 290, 308, from myth to reason, 63 309, 313, 315 fu 賦 poetry (rhymprose), 36 and Delphic oracle stories, 280 funeral rites, 185 Hesiod, 105, 111, 153 future, 3, 6 heteropathic qi (xie qi 邪氣), 320 Fuyang, 46, 334, 339, 367 hexagram, 32, 185, 332 Baoshan, 333 Galen, 160, 364 names, 32 ganzhi 干支 see sexagenary cycle numeric representations, 332 Gernet, Jacques, 367, 368 statements, 32, 185 Gernet, Louis, 65 in Zuo zhuan, 336 ghosts, 211, 219, 248 Hidden Stems (Dunjia 遁甲), 172 Ginzburg, Carlo, 64 hiera, 150, 151, 244, 247, 253, 254, 288, 289 Gongsun Ao, 95 in Xenophon, 253, 254 Gongzi Wan of Chen (Jing Zhong), 286 Hieron of Syracuse, 106 good fortune, 200 hieroscopy, 20, 147, 150, 152, 163, 246, Graham, A.
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