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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2026

Edited by
Hugh Bowden  and
Esther Eidinow
Hugh Bowden
Affiliation:
King's College London
Esther Eidinow
Affiliation:
University of Bristol

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Visiting the Oracle at Dodona
Contexts of Unknowing in Ancient Greek Religion
 , pp. xi - xii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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Spelling, Abbreviations, Data Access Statement

We have adopted Greek spelling for names of people and places, except in those cases where the Latinized form is more familiar.

For ancient authors and works, and modern collections of ancient evidence, we use the list of abbreviations found in Hornblower, S., Spawforth, A. and Eidinow, E. 2012. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. 4, Oxford; this is also available online.

Apollonius Dyscolus Syn.

Apollonius Dyscolus Peri Syntaxeos/On Syntax.

Aristid. HL

Aelius Aristides. Hiera Logoi/Sacred Tales.

CIOD

Lhôte, É. and Carbon J.-M., eds. 2018–. Choix d’inscriptions oraculaires de Dodone. See https://dodonaonline.com/ciod

Claud. De bell. Goth.

Claudianus De bello Gothico/The Gothic War.

Dem. De fals. leg.

Demosthenes. De falsa legatione/On the False Embassy Or. 19.

DVC

Dakares, S., Vokotopoulou, I and Chrestides, T. eds. 2013. Ta chresteria elasmata tes Dodones ton anaskaphon D. Evangelide. Athens.

Euripides Erect.

Euripides Erechtheus.

Hes. Ehoiai

Hesiod. Ehoiai/Catalogue of Women.

Hippoc. Mul. 2

Hippocratic text. De diversis causis mulierum/On the various causes of disease in women.

Hom. Hymn Apollo

Homeric Hymn to Apollo.

Hom. Hymn Hermes

Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Milet I.3

Kawerau, G. and Rehm, A. 1914. Das Delphinion in Milet (Milet, I, 3). Berlin.

Ps. Nonnus ad Greg.

Pseudo-Nonnus, Commentary on Sermons by Gregory of Nazianzus.

Naz. Or.

Nazianzus.

Plut. De sera

Plutarch. De sera numinis vindicta/On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance.

SGDI

Bauer, A. and Collitz, H., eds. 1899. Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften (Band 2): Epirus, Akarnanien, Aitolien, Aenianen, Phthiotis, Lokris, Phokis, Dodona, Achaia und seine Colonien, Delphi. Göttingen.

Vib. De flum.

Vibius Sequester. De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus per litteras

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