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Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity

Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity

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Introduction: Where've All the Good People Gone?

Divination and Human Nature

BETWEEN ANCIENT DIVINATION AND MODERN INTUITION: A COGNITIVE HISTORY

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Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic symbol. The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers--the allegorists--were the first to develop the notion.