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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
The Sortes Homericae drew a random line from Homer to answer a question or predict the future. In the Roman world it coexisted with the Sortes Vergilianae and the later Christian Sortes Sanctorum.
How it works
A line of Homer was selected at random and interpreted.
At a glance
- Also called
- Homeric lots, Homeromanteion
- Traditions
- Greco-Roman
- Regions
- Ancient Mediterranean
- You need
- A question, A random draw
- Price
- Free