The ancient oracles : making the gods speak /

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For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stoneman, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Oracles, Greek.
Divination > Greece.
Divination > Grèce.
Oracles grecs.
Divination
Oracles, Greek
Religion
Orakels.
Orakel.
Spådomskonst > Grekland.
Greece > Religion.
Grèce > Religion.
Greece
Grekisk religion.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why did the Greeks consult oracles?
  • Possession or policy?: the case of Delphi
  • The riddles of the Pythia
  • From Egypt to Dodona
  • The gods, the heroes and the dead
  • The oracle coast: sibyls and prophets of Asia Minor
  • Dreams and healing
  • Dicing for destiny
  • Foreknowledge, fate and philosophy
  • Sceptics, frauds and fakes
  • New questions for the oracles: Platonism and theology
  • 'Ecstatic predictions of woe': the Sibylline oracles
  • Silencing the oracles.

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