Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece

ISBN-13: 9781107151574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 228 str.

Julia Kindt

Opis

An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.

Recenzje

'The book is a welcome contribution to increasingly networked reflection about the religious world view of the Greeks.' Historische Zeitschrift

Spis treści

1. Introduction: revisiting Delphi; 2. Herodotus: Delphi, oracles and storytelling in the Histories; 3. Euripides: ironic readings of Apollo and his prophecies; 4. Plato: Socrates, or invoking the Oracle as a witness; 5. Pausanias: what's the stuff of divinity?; 6. Athenaeus: encountering the divine in word and wood; 7. Conclusion: religion and storytelling in ancient Greece; Appendix: Plutarch - a philosophical enquiry into an enigmatic sign.