The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of ResponsesThis 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
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF RECORDED ORACLES II | 11 |
ORACLES OF FOLKLORIC ORIGIN | 58 |
THE TRANSMISSION AND ATTRIBUTION OF NARRATIVE ORACLES | 88 |
QUESTIONABLE RESPONSES | 120 |
CHRESMOlogues and ORACLE COLLECTIONS | 145 |
THE CONVENTIONS AND STRUCTURE | 166 |
THE MANTIC SESSION | 196 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Catalogue of Delphic Responses | 240 |
Catalogue of Responses of Didyma | 417 |
Appendix A Correspondence of PW Numbers | 430 |
Bibliography | 445 |
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