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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21374| Title: | Sortes | Contributor(s): | Dillon, Matthew P (author) |
Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21374 | Abstract: | 'Sortes' (lit. "lots") were employed to foretell the future, and as a method of DIVINATION were used by both Greeks and Romans. In the Roman Empire at the temple of FORTUNA in PRAENESTE verses of Vergil were inscribed on wooden tablets, one of which would be drawn randomly in a consultation and interpreted. Sortes could take the form of the random consultation of a book such as Homer's 'Iliad'; the lines so found were interpreted as having prophetic meaning. | Publication Type: | Entry In Reference Work | Source of Publication: | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, p. 900-900 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | New York, United States of America | ISBN: | 9780203506240 9780415831970 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430305 Classical Greek and roman history | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | N Entry In Reference Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/226306875 |
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