Revisiting Delphi religion and storytelling in ancient Greece

Revisiting Delphi -- Herodotus: Delphi, oracles, and storytelling in the histories -- Euripides: ironic readings of Apollo and his prophecies -- Plato: Socrates, or invoking the oracle as a witness -- Pausanias: what's the stuff of divinity? -- Athenaeus: encountering the divine in word and woo...

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1. Verfasser: Kindt, Julia (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York Cambridge University Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge classical studies
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Zusammenfassung:Revisiting Delphi -- Herodotus: Delphi, oracles, and storytelling in the histories -- Euripides: ironic readings of Apollo and his prophecies -- Plato: Socrates, or invoking the oracle as a witness -- Pausanias: what's the stuff of divinity? -- Athenaeus: encountering the divine in word and wood -- Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece -- Plutarch, a philosophical enquiry into an enigmatic sign
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-210) and index
Beschreibung:xv, 215 Seiten
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ISBN:9781316606155
978-1-316-60615-5
9781107151574
978-1-107-15157-4