Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)

Revisiting Delphi

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781107151574
• ISBN-10: 1107151570
• Artikelnr.: 45155547

Autorenporträt

Julia Kindt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Rethinking Greek Religion (Cambridge, 2012) and has co-edited, with E. Eidinow, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015). She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ancient History and a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

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.