Talk:Greek divination

A little more Hellenic

I don't see any Greek in here and some of the sections are pretty scanty. What sources there are do mention some Greek concepts. I need to add mantis and this is the place to do it without creating an article on mantis, which would duplicate the concept. So, I'm Hellenizing it a bit more, especially the intro, nothing spectacular, just a few Greek concepts of things covered too briefly in English.Botteville (talk) 03:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

A little more work on the Oracles section

The Oracles section needs to follow through on the difference between oracles and individual consultants. Tiresias was the individual type. Smith gives a great summary of the oracles. There were quite a few. Smith is given as a ref in the intro. I suggest tabularizing Smith's summary. This article differs from the Oracle article in being only about Greek divination. Theoretically it should give the Greek details and be referenced in the oracle article. For the future there might be content for an Etruscan divination and Roman divination although for me that would be farther along. I will probably get back to this to implement these changes if no one else does it.Botteville (talk) 10:10, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Ref system

Has to be changed. Currently all the main books are defined with a ref name, which does not distinguish pages. So the pages are all wrong. But, the system is so horrendous no one dares to tackle it. So, you gat these awful errors perpetuated with refs no one dares to touch. Lots of work here.Botteville (talk) 01:13, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Removed nonsense passage

Here it is: "Greek thinkers thought epileptic fitting and thus epilepsy had an origin with a divinity, and the means of making this association is thought through divination. This conclusion on the consciousnesses of ancient Greek thinkers is drawn by the fact of the sheer number of divine signs observed within society of the time, and the propensity of people to know a variety things as all having divine causes."

The ref is no ref - no page number given and none of the material under search results for "epilepsy" is the same or relevant. The passage would have us believe there is some connection between epilepsy and divination. The main problem is that epilepsy is a type of disease. When having a supposedly inspirational episode the poor patient cannot even speak. The Julo-Claudians suffered from it and they were not on that account considered divinely motivated to utter prophecies. The rest of the passage is not comprehensible as English. This nonsense escaped to this point by being hidden under a false reference and through lack of interest.Botteville (talk) 10:08, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

References

2nd paragraph after Oracles header

This paragraph makes quite a few fascinating claims about practices but offers no citations. I wasn't sure how best to mark this, so I'm mentioning it here. 167.135.197.100 (talk) 17:22, 26 April 2023 (UTC)