Oracular tales in Pausanias / Line Overmark Juul ; [translated from the Danish by John Kendal].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overmark Juul, Line, 1975-

Series:

University of Southern Denmark classical studies ; v. 23.

University of Southern Denmark classical studies, 0107-1378 ; vol. 23

Language:

Danish

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Pausanias, active approximately 150-175. Description of Greece.

Oracles, Greek.

Antiquities.

Greece--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Greece--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Oracles, Greek--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark ; Portland, OR : Distribution in the U.S. and Canada [by] International Specialized Book Services, 2010.

Language Note:

Text in English with Corpus oraculorum (p. [141]-186) in Greek.

Summary:

Pausanias' Description of Greece is the only or at least the most important source to more than 60 percent of the oracular tales. This makes the work crucial to everybody, who wishes to study the oracular tales in the form they have been handed down to us in the antique written sources, In Oracular Tales in Pausanias a study of the collected oracular tales in Pausanias' Description of Greece is made available for the first time. Up until now, research into the history of oracles has emphasised either the archaeology of the oracle sites of the degree of authenticity of the oracular responses. The present book provides a new approach by not only focusing on the god's oracular response, but also by viewing the entire oracle consultation as a narrative with a certain narrative structure, which makes it possible to view oracular tales as a specific, orally transmitted literary genre.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-140).

ISBN:

9788776744830

8776744833

OCLC:

662401560