Oracles, curses, and risk among the ancient Greeks /

In this book, question tablets from the oracle at Dodona are set side-by-side with curse tablets (katadesmoi or defixiones) from across the Ancient Greek world (for the period 6th-1st centuries BCE). It explores what these texts reveal about perceptions of and responses to the uncertain future, and...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eidinow, Esther, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Oracles, Greek.
Blessing and cursing > Greece.
Oracles grecs.
Bénédiction et malédiction > Grèce.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Blessing and cursing
Oracles, Greek
Angst.
Onzekerheid.
Orakels.
Vervloekingen.
Griekse oudheid.
Orakel > grekisk religion.
Förbannelser > grekisk religion.
Greece > Religious life and customs.
Greece
Griekenland.
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