Oracular Tales in Pausanias (Hardcover)

Pausanias' Description of Greece is the only or at least the most important source to more than 60 percent of the oracular tales. This makes the work crucial to everybody, who wishes to study the oracular tales in the form they have been handed down to us in the antique written sources, In Oracular Tales in Pausanias a study of the collected oracular tales in Pausanias' Description of Greece is made available for the first time. Up until now, research into the history of oracles has emphasised either the archaeology of the oracle sites of the degree of authenticity of the oracular responses. The present book provides a new approach by not only focusing on the god's oracular response, but also by viewing the entire oracle consultation as a narrative with a certain narrative structure, which makes it possible to view oracular tales as a specific, orally transmitted literary genre.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Southern Denmark
Country of origin:	Denmark
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	Line Overmark Juul
Dimensions:	155 x 230 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-87-7674-483-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General Promotions
LSN:	87-7674-483-3
Barcode:	9788776744830

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