Paul Magdalino and Andrei Timotin, eds. Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l’Antiquité tardive à Byzance. La Pomme d'or Publishing, 2019.

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This volume is the first collection of studies on the predictive knowledge and techniques of divination that flourished in Late Antiquity and were transmitted to the Byzantine world. The book has five main themes: divination as an object of philosophical reflection in Late Antiquity; the appropriation and reinterpretation of oracles by both pagans and Christians at the end of Antiquity; the Byzantine attitude to divination; the place of astrology among the divinatory techniques of the Roman and Byzantine worlds; dream interpretation in Late Antiquity and its Byzantine sequel.