| FA-52711-06 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | William E. Klingshirn | Diviners and Divination in the Roman Empire | 8/1/2006 - 4/30/2007 | $40,000.00 | William | E. | Klingshirn | | | | Catholic University of America | Washington | DC | 20064-0001 | USA | 2005 | Classics | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
This project is designed to complete a monograph on diviners and divination in the Roman empire. It studies interactions between diviners and clients; links between divination and empire; the historiography of divination; attacks on divination; and changes in divinatory practice. The book begins in the 1st century BCE with Cicero's "De Divinatione." Chapters 1-5 cover the following three centuries, when a wide range of specialized diviners practiced across the empire. Chapters 6-8 examine changes in late antiquity that led to the marginalization of diviners, Christian adaptations of divination, and the continuation of traditional specialties where remnants of the empire persisted. A prosopography of diviners will be included as an appendix. |