The Resource The ancient oracles : making the gods speak, Richard Stoneman
The ancient oracles : making the gods speak, Richard Stoneman
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The item The ancient oracles : making the gods speak, Richard Stoneman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects of oracular consultation
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages)
- Contents
-
- Why did the Greeks consult oracles?
- Possession or policy?: the case of Delphi
- The riddles of the Pythia
- From Egypt to Dodona
- The gods, the heroes and the dead
- The oracle coast: sibyls and prophets of Asia Minor
- Dreams and healing
- Dicing for destiny
- Foreknowledge, fate and philosophy
- Sceptics, frauds and fakes
- New questions for the oracles: Platonism and theology
- 'Ecstatic predictions of woe': the Sibylline oracles
- Silencing the oracles
- Isbn
- 9780300172133
- Label
- The ancient oracles : making the gods speak
- Title
- The ancient oracles
- Title remainder
- making the gods speak
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Stoneman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects of oracular consultation
- Cataloging source
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stoneman, Richard
- Dewey number
- 292.3/2
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- BF1765
- LC item number
- .S76 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Oracles, Greek
- Divination
- Greece
- Divination
- Oracles, Greek
- Religion
- Greece
- Orakels
- Orakel
- Spådomskonst
- Grekisk religion
- Label
- The ancient oracles : making the gods speak, Richard Stoneman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Why did the Greeks consult oracles? -- Possession or policy?: the case of Delphi -- The riddles of the Pythia -- From Egypt to Dodona -- The gods, the heroes and the dead -- The oracle coast: sibyls and prophets of Asia Minor -- Dreams and healing -- Dicing for destiny -- Foreknowledge, fate and philosophy -- Sceptics, frauds and fakes -- New questions for the oracles: Platonism and theology -- 'Ecstatic predictions of woe': the Sibylline oracles -- Silencing the oracles
- Control code
- 884499385
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300172133
- Lccn
- 2010034993
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5q9svq
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884499385
- Label
- The ancient oracles : making the gods speak, Richard Stoneman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Why did the Greeks consult oracles? -- Possession or policy?: the case of Delphi -- The riddles of the Pythia -- From Egypt to Dodona -- The gods, the heroes and the dead -- The oracle coast: sibyls and prophets of Asia Minor -- Dreams and healing -- Dicing for destiny -- Foreknowledge, fate and philosophy -- Sceptics, frauds and fakes -- New questions for the oracles: Platonism and theology -- 'Ecstatic predictions of woe': the Sibylline oracles -- Silencing the oracles
- Control code
- 884499385
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300172133
- Lccn
- 2010034993
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5q9svq
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884499385
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