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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2016
      September 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316585047
      9781107151574
      9781316606155
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316585047
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 228 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    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.

    Reviews

    'This book is intended for the specialist reader and for those who wish to think more deeply about the place of religion in ancient Greek society. … It is certainly a volume to which one could return and find stimulation for further ideas.'

    Marion Gibbs Source: Classics For All

    'The book is a welcome contribution to increasingly networked reflection about the religious world view of the Greeks.'

    Source: Historische Zeitschrift

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