Revisiting Delphi: religion and storytelling in ancient Greece

Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Paus...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kindt, Julia 1975- (Συγγραφέας)
Τύπος μέσου: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
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Έκδοση: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016.
Στο/Στη:Έτος: 2016
Μονογραφική σειρά/Περιοδικό:Cambridge classical studies
Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών:B Ελλάδα (Αρχαιότητα, μοτίβο) (Αρχαιότητα) / Delphi / Θρησκεία / Μαντείο <μοτίβο>
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Storytelling (Greece)
B Storytelling ; Greece
B Storytelling ; Religious aspects
B Greece ; Religion
B Greece Θρησκεία
B Storytelling Religious aspects
B Delphian oracle
B Oracles, Greek
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Παράλληλη έκδοση:Print version: 9781107151574
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Σύνοψη:Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Pausanias and Athenaeus, offering the first comparative and extended enquiry into the way these and other authors force us to move the link between religion and narrative centre stage. Their accounts of Delphi and its prophecies reflect a world in which the gods frequently remain baffling and elusive despite every human effort to make sense of the signs they give.
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
Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2016)
ISBN:1316585042
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316585047