Esther Eidinow
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British classical historian and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Esther Eidinow is a British ancient historian and academic. She specialises in ancient Greece, particularly ancient Greek religion and magic. She has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol since 2017.
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Published Works
- Evolving practices in environmental scenarios: a new scenario typology (2008) (178)
- Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (2007) (120)
- The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) (85)
- The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1998) (72)
- Networks and Narratives: A Model for Ancient Greek Religion (2011) (39)
- Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2011) (17)
- PATTERNS OF PERSECUTION: 'WITCHCRAFT' TRIALS IN CLASSICAL ATHENS (2010) (15)
- Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2015) (13)
- Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion (2016) (11)
- The aesthetics of story-telling as a technology of the plausible (2016) (11)
- Section 3. Riskworld scenarios (2003) (10)
- Telling stories: Exploring the relationship between myths and ecological wisdom (2016) (9)
- Section 2. Background and dynamics of the scenarios (2003) (9)
- LEAD-LETTER DAYS: WRITING, COMMUNICATION AND CRISIS IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD* (2010) (7)
- Editors’ Introduction: Journal of Cognitive Historiography (2014) (7)
- “The Eye Of The Soul”: Phronesis And The Aesthetics Of Organizing (2012) (7)
- Section 2. A brief introduction to building and using scenarios (2003) (6)
- Oracular consultation, fate and the concept of the individual (2013) (6)
- The story of theology and the theology of the story (2016) (6)
- Binding Spells on Tablets and Papyri (2019) (5)
- The Best Defence (2007) (5)
- Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) (5)
- Oracles and oracle-sellers: an ancient market in futures (2014) (4)
- What Will Happen to Me If I Leave?’ Ancient Greek Oracles, Slaves and Slave Owners. (2011) (4)
- Plato and the secularisation of Greek theology (2016) (3)
- Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity (2020) (3)
- An Inscription in the Basement of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2006) (3)
- Social Knowledge and Spiritual Insecurity: Identifying "Witchcraft" in Classical Greek Communities (2019) (3)
- Introduction: what might we mean by the theologies of ancient Greek religion? (2016) (3)
- Why the Athenians Began to Curse (2006) (2)
- Testing the Oracle? On the Experience of (Multiple) Oracle Consultations (2018) (2)
- Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. (2016) (2)
- Magic and Social Tension (2019) (2)
- A Lapse into Unreason (2007) (2)
- In Search of the 'Beggar Priest' (2017) (2)
- Gods and men in ancient Greek conceptions of lawgiving (2016) (2)
- Ancient Greek Religion (2015) (1)
- Who's afraid of Cypselus? Contested theologies and dynastic dedications (2016) (1)
- "A Devotee and a Champion": Reinterpreting the female 'victims' of magic in early Christian texts (2016) (1)
- Sacrifi cial theologies (2016) (1)
- Wisdom, Responsibility and Futures: Introduction to WiseFutures N.0 (2020) (1)
- “The Horror of the Terrifying and the Hilarity of the Grotesque”: Daimonic Spaces—and Emotions—in Ancient Greek Literature (2019) (1)
- The seer in ancient Greece – By Michael Attyah Flower (2008) (1)
- Popular Theology: The Gift of Divine Envy (2016) (1)
- Ancient Greek Religion: ‘Embedded’… and Embodied (2015) (1)
- Ancient Cultures (2019) (1)
- Τύχα at the Oracle of Zeus, Dodona (2019) (1)
- Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood (2017) (1)
- The (Ancient Greek) Subject Supposed to Believe (2019) (1)
- Polytheism and tragedy (2016) (1)
- "They Blow Now One Way, Now Another" (Hes. Theog. 875): Winds in the Ancient Greek Imaginary (2019) (1)
- I-Thou-Nymph: a relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion (2022) (1)
- The Dwelling of the Spirit (2007) (1)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Curses and Risk (2007) (0)
- 'With Masculine and Perfect Mind'? Asceticism and the Articulation of the Female Christian Self (2019) (0)
- Oracles and Daily Life (2007) (0)
- Approaches to historical explanations (2019) (0)
- Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott (review) (2016) (0)
- Gossip…In Private (2015) (0)
- Testing the Oracle? (2019) (0)
- Consuming Narratives: The Politics of Cannibalism on Mt. Lykaion (2019) (0)
- Sport (2022) (0)
- A Feeling for the Future: Ancient Greek Divination and Embodied Cognition (2018) (0)
- Sourvinou-Inwood C. edited by Parker R. Athenian Myths and Festivals: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 377. $150. 9780199592074. (2013) (0)
- Special issue: fate, luck, and fortune: narratives of environmental risk editor's introduction (2019) (0)
- Curses, Greece and Rome (2012) (0)
- (D.) Kamen Status in Classical Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 144. £24.95. 9780691138138. (2015) (0)
- Introduction to This Issue: Early Modern to Present Day (2020) (0)
- The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals (2022) (0)
- Public, Private,…and Secret (2015) (0)
- A Catalogue and Summary of Published Questions by Individuals and Responses from the Dodona Oracle (2007) (0)
- Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality (2023) (0)
- Eidinow, Esther (2013) Oracular consultation, fate and the concept of the individual. In: Divination in the Ancient World: Religious Options and the Individual. Potsdamer (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine (2019) (0)
- Ancient Greek Binding Spells and (Political) Violence (2020) (0)
- History - (F.M.) Dunn Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece . Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. Pp. 239. $60. 9780472116164. (2009) (0)
- What would Perikles do, and why it still matters – Asking the ancient Greek gods for political advice (2021) (0)
- The Greek Gods (2011) (0)
- (K.) Stratton with (D.S.) Kalleres Eds Daughters of Hecate. Women and Magic in the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 552. £27.99. 9780195342710. (2016) (0)
- Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination (2019) (0)
- Alexander (10) (RE 22) Balas (2012) (0)
- Individuals and Oracles (2007) (0)
- Women and their Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean (2017) (0)
- Eidinow, E. (2017). Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood. Numen , 64 (4), 394-417. (2017) (0)
- Section 4. Comparison and implications (2003) (0)
- Narrating Witchcraft: Agency, Discourse, and Power (2019) (0)
- Introduction: Overview and Approach (2015) (0)
- Introduction: ‘A Relish for the Envious’ (2015) (0)
- Irad Malkin, A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greeks Overseas (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), xviii + 284pp. ISBN: 9-780-1997-3481-8. £40.00 (hbk). (2014) (0)
- Love and Curses (2007) (0)
- Gossip…In Public (2015) (0)
- On the Experience of (Multiple) Oracular Consultations (2019) (0)
- Gossip, Slander, Hearsay, Truth: Oral Evidence in Athenian Courts (2020) (0)
- Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens by Andrew T. Alwine (review) (2020) (0)
- Ancient magic and the agency of victimhood (2016) (0)
- Gendered time and narrative structure in Herodotos’ Histories (2019) (0)
- C.A. Faraone Vanishing Acts on Ancient Greek Amulets: From Oral Performance to Visual Design (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 115). London: Institute of Classical Studies, (2012). Pp. xii + 105, illus. £38. 9781905670406. (2014) (0)
- Introduction to This Issue: The Roman Empire: (2019) (0)
- Section 5. Summary and reflections (2003) (0)
- Genres of Gossip (2015) (0)
- Ancient Myths and Modern SMEs (2020) (0)
- Sarapis at Alexandria: The Creation and Destruction of a Religious “Public” (2019) (0)
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