The Delphic Oracle : Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses / Joseph Fontenrose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, 1903-1988, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apollo (Deity)--Cult--Greece--Delphi (Extinct city).

Apollo.

Delphian oracle.

Oracles, Greek.

Delphi (Extinct city)--History.

Delphi (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1978]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

CHAPTER I. The Characteristics of Recorded Oracles

CHAPTER II. Oracles of Folkloric Origin

CHAPTER III. The Transmission and Attribution of Narrative Oracles

CHAPTER IV. Questionable Responses

CHAPTER V. Chresmologues and Oracle Collections

CHAPTER VI. The Conventions and Structure of Traditional Oracles in Verse

CHAPTER VII. The Mantic Session

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520331310

0520331311

OCLC:

1149411749