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The Delphic oracle : its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses / Joseph Fontenrose.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978.Description: xviii, 476 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520033604
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 292.32
Incomplete contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Anne Stewart's Collection

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.

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