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Author(s): Joseph Fontenrose
ISBN(s): 9780520331310, 0520331311
Edition: Reprint 2019
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Year: 2020
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520331311
ISBN 13: 9780520331310
Author: Joseph Fontenrose

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.

The Delphic Oracle Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER I The Characteristics of Recorded Oracles
MODES OF EXPRESSION IN HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY RESPONSES
THE TOPICS OF HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY RESPONSES
THE QUESTION FORMULAE OF HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY CONSULTATIONS
THE OCCASIONS OF CONSULTATION
OBSERVATIONS
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF QUASI-HISTORICAL RESPONSES
ADDENDUM
CHAPTER II Oracles of Folkloric Origin
JERUSALEM CHAMBER
MACDUFF AND BIRNAM WOOD
EQUIVOCAL PREDICTIONS OF DEATH OR FORTUNE
DISTINCTIVE SIGN
TRADITIONAL THEMES IN ORACULAR TALES
RIDDLES
PROVERBS
CHAPTER III The Transmission and Attribution of Narrative Oracles
PROPHECY IN LEGEND AND EPIC
THE CITATION AND QUOTATION OF NARRATIVE ORACLES
NARRATIVE ORACLES ORIGINALLY NON-DELPHIC
NARRATIVE ORACLES INVENTED AS DELPHIC RESPONSES
ADVENTITIOUS ORACLES
CHAPTER IV Questionable Responses
THE CYRENAIC ORACLES
THE TEGEAN ORACLES
THE WOODEN WALL
THE TOMB OF PAUSANIAS
THE LOCRIAN MAIDENS
COLONIZATION ORACLES
CHAPTER V Chresmologues and Oracle
ORACLES VARIOUSLY ASCRIBED
SEERS AND CHRESMOLOGUES
THE ORACLE COLLECTIONS
CHAPTER VI The Conventions and Structure of Traditional Oracles in Verse OPENING FORMULAE OF TRADITIONAL VERSE ORACLES
THE STRUCTURE OF TRADITIONAL VERSE ORACLES
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTHENTIC VERSE RESPONSES
CHAPTER VII The Mantic Session
CHASM AND VAPORS
THE PYTHIA’S ECSTASY
THE SPEAKING OF RESPONSES
THE MANTIC RITUAL
ADDENDUM Procedures of Other Oracles
Conclusion
Catalogue of Delphic Responses
Catalogue of Responses of Didyma
APPENDIX A Correspondence of PW Numbers with the Catalogue
APPENDIX B Summary of Modes, Topics, Question Formulae, Occasions

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