Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at KU Leuven. She is the author of A Perfect Medium? Oracular Divination in the Thought of Plutarch (2017). Claire Hall is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Origen and Prophecy (2021).

Introduction. Part I. Philosophical Perspectives on Divination, Revelation and Prophecy: 1. Theories of prophecy in Philo of Alexandria Elsa Giovanna Simonetti; 2. The Neoplatonic background of a text on prophecy attributed to John Chrysostom Andrei Timotin; 3. 'Revelation' for Christians and pagans and its philosophical allegoresis: intersections within imperial Platonism Ilaria Ramelli; 4. Divination and dialogue in Porphyry and Iamblichus Crystal Addey; Part II. Status, Role and Functions of Human Intermediaries: 5. 'The holiest man ever born': sages, theoi andres and the shaping of late Greek prophecy Claire Hall; 6. Women's access to divine knowledge in late ancient Jewish sources Hanna Tervanotko; 7. Epiphany and divination reconsidered: the case-study of the iamata from imperial Pergamum Georgia Petridou; 8. The true prophet in the pseudo-Clementine homilies Marco Zambon; Part III. Divine Transcendence and Pragmatic Purposes: 9. Revelation and Roman augury Federico Santangelo; 10. 'For thy kingdom is past not away, / Nor thy power from the place thereof hurled': Martianus Capella and a prophylactic oracle for Apollo Chiara Tommasi; 11. No longer does Phoebus have a cabin': Emperor Julian and the fall of the temple in Delphi Aude Busine.