Oracular Tales in Pausanias

by: Overmark Juul, L.

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Preface 7 (2)
1 Introduction 9 (6)
Aims
9 (3)
Method
12 (3)
2 Survey of scholarly literature 15 (8)
The author and the work
15 (3)
Research on oracular responses
18 (3)
The procedure at a consultation in Delphi
21 (2)
3 An analytic examination of the form of oracular tales as an orally derived literary genre 23 (82)
Principles for Catalogue of Oracular Tales
23 (4)
Context
27 (4)
Source
31 (15)
Occasion
46 (1)
Oracle
46 (22)
Questioner
68 (3)
Question
71 (2)
Responder
73 (6)
Response and code
79 (10)
Type
89 (13)
Conclusions from Chapter 3
102 (3)
4 The function of the oracular tales in The Description of Greece 105 (20)
The function of the oracular tales in the logoi and theoremata passages
106 (4)
Choice of topic and narrative mode in Pausanias' oracle stories and in the description of the oracle sites
110 (5)
The trustworthiness of the oracular tales
115 (10)
5 The function of the genre of oracular tales in The Description of Greece seen from the perspective of its era 125 (6)
The situation of the oracle sites in the 2nd century B.C.
125 (2)
Pausanias and his era
127 (4)
6 Conclusion 131 (4)
The function of the oracular tales in The Description of Greece
132 (3)
Bibliography 135 (6)
Appendices
1 Corpus Oraculorum
141 (47)
2 Catalogue of oracular tales
188 (72)
3 Concordance of responses from the Delphic oracle
260 (6)
4 Statistics on the distribution of oracular tales in Pausanias' ten books
266 (2)
5 Map of oracle sites
268 (2)
Notes 270

Text in English with Corpus oraculorum (p. [141]-186) in Greek

Subjects:
Antiquities
Description of Greece (Pausanias)
Early works
Greece
Greece Antiquities Early works to 1800
Greece Description and travel Early works to 1800
Grekland antiken reseskildringar
Grekland reseskildringar verk före 1800
Grèce Antiquités Ouvrages avant 1800
Oracles grecs Ouvrages avant 1800
Oracles, Greek
Oracles, Greek Early works to 1800
Pausanias, 100- talet
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Travel
Ελλάδα Περιγραφή και ταξίδια

Series:
University of Southern Denmark classical studies, v. 23,

278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Oracular Tales in Pausanias

by: Overmark Juul, L.

• ISBN-13: 9788776744830 / 978-87-7674-483-0
• ISBN-03: 8776744833 / 87-7674-483-3
• University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2010

Price: 75,00 EURO

1 copy in stock