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Peter T.Struck's book is an excellent contribution to emerging accounts of divination and,I would suggest,to the progressing comparative study of such ancient arts.1 Aiming to develop a cognitive history of intuition in classical antiquity,he inevitably compares the modem concept of intuition with the ancient concept and practice of divination.Accordingly,he presents "evidence that positions divinatory knowledge within the classical thought-world in a way that is more or less analogous to the position of the modem concept of intuition" (16).This comparison leads him to use and qualify the term "surplus knowledge" as the product of such cognitive acts.In the case of the ancients,he claims that "divination gave [them] a way to talk about surplus knowledge" (16),which he proceeds to specifically call "divinatory knowledge." Struck's study is partly organized around a comparison among select thinkers and sources,with these comparative analyses appearing either at the beginning or end of a given chapter,or even both.These segments provide a great help to the reader given the difficult nature of the text.