Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity496 Divining Disaster. Signs Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture

Name: Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity496 Divining Disaster. Signs Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture
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Bol This book includes the ancient Greek world in the longue durée of disaster discourse, adopting semiotic and ecocritical perspectives to show how ancient Greek literature and culture employ signs as a hermeneutic form of disaster management. In a world riddled with earthquakes and plagued by epidemics, how did the ancient Greeks cope with, and make sense of, disaster? As our present-day environment is perceived to be increasingly perilous, this book includes the ancient Greek world in the longue durée of disaster discourse. Drawing on anthropological disaster studies, ecocriticism, and cognitive studies, this study considers disaster as a semiotic phenomenon marked by uncertainty. Divining disaster, then, functions as a hermeneutic form of disaster management that alleviates uncertainty and assigns agency, not only in religious practices such as oracle consultation but also in historical and mythological narratives.

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This book includes the ancient Greek world in the longue durée of disaster discourse, adopting semiotic and ecocritical perspectives to show how ancient Greek literature and culture employ signs as a hermeneutic form of disaster management. In a world riddled with earthquakes and plagued by epidemics, how did the ancient Greeks cope with, and make sense of, disaster? As our present-day environment is perceived to be increasingly perilous, this book includes the ancient Greek world in the longue durée of disaster discourse. Drawing on anthropological disaster studies, ecocriticism, and cognitive studies, this study considers disaster as a semiotic phenomenon marked by uncertainty. Divining disaster, then, functions as a hermeneutic form of disaster management that alleviates uncertainty and assigns agency, not only in religious practices such as oracle consultation but also in historical and mythological narratives.

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