Revisiting Delphi [electronic resource] : religion and storytelling in ancient Greece / Julia Kindt.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kindt, Julia, 1975- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge classical studies
Subjects:
Storytelling > Religious aspects.
Storytelling > Greece.
Delphian oracle.
Oracles, Greek.
Greece > Religion.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Revisiting Delphi
  • Herodotus: Delphi, oracles, and storytelling in the histories
  • Euripides: ironic readings of Apollo and his prophecies
  • Plato: Socrates, or invoking the oracle as a witness
  • Pausanias: what's the stuff of divinity?
  • Athenaeus: encountering the divine in word and wood
  • Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece
  • Plutarch, a philosophical enquiry into an enigmatic sign.