Conversations With Eternity – Robert K.g. Temple

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Drawing evidence from a range of sources, this volume examines the science of prediction in the ancient world, contrasting the techniques and traditions of divination in classical Greece, Rome and ancient China. The extraordinary discovery of the Underworld of the ancient Greeks. We tend to think of ancient stories of visits to the Underworld by Odysseus, Orpheus and Aeneas as being poetic fictions, but Robert Temple shows here that in fact, the Ancients believed the Underworld to be a place that actually existed. …

Century, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Book Condition: Good+. Very clean square copy. Dust jacket: Good+ . In protective cover. Overall a very good copy, tightly bound, pages free from any ink inscriptions