Kim Beerden, Ph.D. (Leiden 2013), is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. Her main research interest is the history of ancient mentalities, especially the fields of food and religion.

Flexibility is the distinguishing feature of ancient Greek divination. Worlds Full of Signs offers a systematic approach by discussing the divinatory sign, homo divinans, text and uncertainty management from a comparative perspective, using Republican Rome and Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia as comparanda.