Revisiting Delphi

Revisiting Delphi: religion and storytelling in ancient Greece

by Kindt, Julia

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An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.

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  • Full title :Revisiting Delphi : religion and storytelling in ancient Greece / Julia Kindt.

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An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.

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  • Publication Date:2016.

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9781316758267, 1316758265, 9781316758380, 1316758389, 1316585042, 9781316585047, 9781316758021, 1316758028
  • oclc:ocn958454869
  • LC Classification:BL785
  • Dewey Decimal:292.3/2

Table of Contents

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Illustration; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General; Authors and Works; Journal Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Authorities and Authenticities; New Questions for the Ancient Oracle; 2 Herodotus; Introduction; Croesus' Oracular Paradigm; Beyond Croesus: Applying the Paradigm; The Foundation of Cyrene; The Theran Tradition; The Cyrenean Tradition; Fighting Wars and Telling Oracle Stories; Conclusion; 3 Euripides; Introduction; Gods and Humans: Incommensurable Orders of Being.

Concealing and RevealingReading Social Identities: Identities within the City and the City's Identity; Ambiguity Resolved: A Divine Oracle Spoken in Human Language?; Duality Reconciled?; Conclusion; 4 Plato; Introduction; Socratic Wisdom and the Nature of Human Knowledge; The Elenctic Method of Investigation in the Context of Human Interpretation; Socrates, the Oracular, and the Human-Divine Relationship; Conclusion; 5 Pausanias; Introduction; Objects and Identities; Gods, Men and Objects; The Significant and the Insignificant; Narrative, Time and Causation; Conclusion; 6 Athenaeus.

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Subjects

Art de conter -- Aspect religieux Art de conter -- Grèce BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality Delphi Delphian oracle Grèce -- Religion Greece Greece -- Religion Griechenland Oracle de Delphes Oracles grecs Oracles, Greek Orakel RELIGION RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology storytelling Storytelling -- Greece Storytelling -- Religious aspects

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Kindt, Julia

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