Articles by Andrew Stiles
A revised version in Kazantzidis, G. and Spatharas, D. (eds.) Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I , 2018
A revised version in Mnemosyne 70.5 (2017), 878-888.
Books by Andrew Stiles
Open Access. The volume is available at:
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This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.
Oxford University Press, 2019
This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Rom... more This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.
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Edited Volumes by Andrew Stiles
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2022
Co-edited, with V. Arena and J.R.W. Prag
Conference Papers and Presentations by Andrew Stiles
Paper presented at the 'Alternative Age of Augustus' conference, held at the Villa Vergiliana, Cu... more Paper presented at the 'Alternative Age of Augustus' conference, held at the Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, 13-16 Oct, 2016.
Paper delivered at the ‘Negotiating, Communicating, Relating: Approaches to Divination’ conferenc... more Paper delivered at the ‘Negotiating, Communicating, Relating: Approaches to Divination’ conference, London, 20-22 July, 2015.
Paper delivered at a conference entitled ‘Censorship and Deviance’, held in the the School of Mod... more Paper delivered at a conference entitled ‘Censorship and Deviance’, held in the the School of Modern Languages, St Andrews, Scotland, 5th July, 2013. Also delivered at the Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH), at the University of Manchester, 22nd March, 2014.
Paper given at the conference entitled ‘The Emotion of Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and A... more Paper given at the conference entitled ‘The Emotion of Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art’, Rethymno, Crete, 11-13 December, 2015.
Paper presented at the Ancient History Work in Progress Seminar Series, Oxford, 10th May 2012.
Paper presented at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference (ASCS), Sydney, Aust... more Paper presented at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference (ASCS), Sydney, Australia, January 2009.
Paper delivered at the Ancient History Work in Progress Seminar Series, Oxford, 7th March, 2013.
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This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.
Further information at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ancient-divination-and-experience-9780198844549?cc=gb&lang=en&#
Edited Volumes by Andrew Stiles
Conference Papers and Presentations by Andrew Stiles
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ancient-divination-and-experience-9780198844549?cc=gb&lang=en&#
This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in practitioners and consultants.
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