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Tatian on the origin of Greek divination (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Alphabetic script
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.02 Writing systems and writing media
11.02.02 Alphabetic script
Animal sacrifices
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.13 Animal sacrifices
Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
Education and transmission of knowledge
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.05 Education and transmission of knowledge
Geometry
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.08 Mathematics
05.08.10 Geometry
Magic and exorcism
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.04 Magic and exorcism
Omen interpretation
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.02 Omen interpretation

Keywords
Greece
inventions

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Tatian, Oratio ad Graecos 1.1:
Do not maintain a totally hostile attitude to foreigners, men of Greece, nor resent their beliefs. For which of your own practices did not have a foreign origin? The most famous of Telmessians invented divination through dreams, Carians foreknowledge through stars; Phrygians and the most ancient of the Isaurians the lore of bird-flights, Cyprians a cult of sacrifices; Babylonians astronomy, Persians magic, Egyptians geometry, Phoenicians education through the letters of the alphabet. Therefore stop calling imitations inventions.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Tatian, Oratio ad Graecos 1.1

Bibliography

Dalley and Reyes 1998, 100	Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.
Whittaker 1982, 2-3	Whittaker, Molly. Tatian Oratio ad Graecos and fragments. Edited and translated. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982.

Amar Annus

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