Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations - With a Catalogue of Responses.

Fontenrose, Joseph:

ISBN 10: 0520033604 / ISBN 13: 9780520033603

Published by University of California Press., 1978

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XVIII., 476 Seiten / pages. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altergemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for its age - Contents -- The Characteristics of Recorded Oracles -- Modes of Expression in Historical and Legendary Responses -- The Topics of Historical and Legendary Responses -- The Question Formulae of Historical and Legendary Consultations -- The Occasions of Consultation -- Observations -- The Characteristics of Quasi-Historical Responses -- Addendum -- Oracles of Folkloric Origin -- Jerusalem Chamber -- Macduff and Birnam Wood -- Equivocal Predictions of Death or Fortune -- Distinctive Sign -- Traditional Themes in Oracular Tales -- Riddles -- Proverbs -- The Transmission and Attribution of Narrative Oracles -- Prophecy in Legend and Epic -- The Citation and Quotation of Narrative Oracles -- Narrative Oracles Originally Non-Delphic -- Narrative Oracles Invented as Delphic Responses -- Adventitious Oracles -- Questionable Responses -- The Cyrenaic Oracles -- The Tegean Oracles -- The Wooden Wall -- The Tomb of Pausanias -- The Locrian Maidens -- Colonization Oracles -- Chresmologues and Oracle Collections -- Oracles Variously Ascribed -- Seers and Chresmologues -- The Oracle Collections -- The Conventions and Structure of Traditional Oracles in Verse -- Opening Formulae of Traditional Verse Oracles -- The Structure of Traditional Verse Oracles -- The Characteristics of Authentic Verse Responses -- The Mantic Session -- Chasm and Vapors -- The Pythia s Ecstasy -- The Speaking of Responses -- The Mantic Ritual -- Addendum: Procedures of Other Oracles-- Conclusion -- Catalogue of Delphic Responses -- Catalogue of Responses of Didyma. ISBN 9780520033603 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 711 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations - With a Catalogue of Responses.
• Publisher: University of California Press.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520033604
• ISBN 13: 9780520033603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 711 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Klassische Philologie

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.