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Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, 1903-1988

The Delphic oracle : its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses / Joseph Fontenrose. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978. - xviii, 476 pages ; 25 cm.

Errata slip inserted. Includes indexes.

Bibliography: pages [445]-450.

I. The characteristics of recorded oracles -- II. Oracles of folkloric origin -- III. The transmission and attribution of narrative oracles -- IV. Questionable responses -- V. Chresmologues and oracle collections -- VI. The conventions and structure -- VII. The mantic session.

ISBN: 0520033604

Subjects--Personal Names:
Apollo (Deity) --Cult--Greece--Delphi (Extinct city)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Delphian oracle
Oracles, Greek

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Delphi (Extinct city)--History

Dewey Class. No.: 292.32