1st Edition
A Cognitive Analysis of the Main Apolline Divinatory Practices Decoding Divination
Introduction; 1. A selection of the main cognitive theories applied; SECTION I – Landscape and Apolline divination: A cognitive study; 2. Landscape agency and cognition at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi; 3. Landscape agency and cognition at the sanctuaries of Apollo at Claros and Didyma; SECTION II – Architecture and Apolline divination: A cognitive study; 4. Architecture and cognition at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi; 5. Architecture and cognition at the sanctuaries of Apollo at Claros and Didyma; SECTION III – Material culture and the prophets of Apollo: A cognitive study; 6. Material culture and cognition at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi; 7. Material culture and cognition at the sanctuaries of Apollo at Claros and Didyma; CONCLUSIONS.
Biography
Giulia Frigerio recently completed her PhD at the University of Kent, where she is currently teaching modules in Classical and Archaeological Studies. Her passion for Divination and Cognitive Archaeology was born during her studies for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Pavia and developed further during work for her Master’s degree at the University of Oxford.
"[This book] is a very welcome addition to a new interdisciplinary trend in the study of ancient divination. Frigerio has offered a monograph that goes beyond banalities and normative readings of ancient Greek religious practices that typically stick to textual-alone analyses, thereby inviting the interested reader to think outside the box, based on a combination of texts, archaeological findings, material culture, space and spatiality, and the cognitive mechanisms of human brain and mind." - Gnomon
