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    Revisiting Delphi : religion and storytelling in ancient Greece / by Kindt, Julia, 1975-

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Revisiting Delphi -- Herodotus: Delphi, oracles, and storytelling in the histories -- Euripides: ironic readings of Apollo and his prophecies -- Plato: Socrates, or invoking the oracle as a witness -- Pausanias: what's the stuff of divinity? …”
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    Georges Melies : First wizard of cinema,

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…L'oracle de Delphes = The oracle of Delphi (1:34) --…”
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    Sacred geography of the ancient Greeks : astrological symbolism in art, architecture, and landscape / by Richer, Jean, 1915-1992

    Published 1994
    Table of Contents: “…The Zodiacal Wheel Centered on Delphi. A Text of Plato's -- Ch. 3. The System Centered on Delos -- Ch. 4. …”
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    The seer and the city : religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece / by Foster, Margaret, 1977-

    Published 2017
    Table of Contents: “…Beyond entrails and omens : Herodotus' Teisamenos and the Talismanic seer at war -- Sailing to Sicily : Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the odyssey -- Suppressing the seer in colonial discourse -- The disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11 -- Hagesias as Sunoikistêr : mantic authority and colonial ideology in Pindar's -- Sixth Olympian ode -- Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's oracular monopoly.…”
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    Ancient Greek divination / by Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…-- The divine experience part one: Delphi and Dodona -- The divine experience part two: Claros, Didyma and others -- Freelance divination: the Mantis -- The Mantis and the Magician.…”
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    Sisters of fate : the myths that speak themselves / by Hudgens, Michael Thomas

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Fate and destiny -- Richard Wagner and the women of fate -- The vantage from outside of time -- Time and the wheel of fortune -- Socrates and the Oracle at Delphi -- Plutarch on daimons -- Strabo the geographer -- The vapor which springeth from the ground -- The Adyton, within and without -- Envoi.…”
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    Ancient Greek divination / by Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…-- The divine experience part one: Delphi and Dodona -- The divine experience part two: Claros, Didyma and others -- Freelance divination: the Mantis -- The Mantis and the Magician.…”
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    Mantikê : studies in ancient divination /

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Struck -- Chresmologues and manteis : independent diviners and the problem of authority / John Dillery -- Voices, books, and dreams : the diversification of divination media in late antique Egypt / David Frankfurter -- Necromancy goes underground : the disguise of skull- and corpse-divination in the Paris magical papyri (PGM IV 1928-2144) / Christopher A. Faraone -- Delphi and the dead / Sarah Iles Johnston.…”
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    Dionysos : archetypal image of indestructible life / by Kerényi, Karl, 1897-1973

    Published 1996
    Table of Contents: “…Minoan Visions : The Spirit of Minoan Art ; The Minoan Gesture ; Visionary Crete ; Transcendence in Nature ; Artificially Induced Transcendence -- Light and Honey : Flaming New Year ; The Preparation of Mead ; The Awakening of the Bees ; The Birth of Orion ; Mythology of the Leather Sack -- The Cretan Core of the Dionysos Myth : Bull, Snake, Ivy, and Wine ; Dionysian Names ; Iakar and Iakchos ; Zagreus ; Ariadne -- The Myths of Arrival ; From the History of Science ; The Forms of Arrival ; Arrivals in Attica ; The Arrival in Athens ; Myth of Arrival and Ancient Rite outside of Attica: Thebes and Delphi -- Dionysos Trieterikos, God of the Two-Year Period : Age and Continuity of the Trieteric Cult ; The Dialectic of the Two-Year Period ; Dionysos in Delphi ; The Mystical Sacrificial Rite ; The Enthronement -- The Dionysos of the Athenians and of His Worshipers in the Greek Mysteries : The Thigh Birth and the Idol with the Mask ; The Dionysian Festivals of the Athenians ; The Beginnings of Tragedy in Attica ; The Birth and Transformation of Comedy in Athens ; The Greek Dionysian Religion of Late Antiquity.…”
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    The Origins of Greek Religion / by Dietrich, Bernard C. 1928-

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…The Problem of Continuity in the Dark Age; Appendix I: Minoan Peak Cults in Cretan Thought; Appendix II: Apollo at Delphi; Appendix III: Greek Mythology on the Mycenaean Age; Bibliography; Indices.…”
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    The ancient oracles : making the gods speak / by Stoneman, Richard

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…-- 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.…”
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    Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece / by Connelly, Joan Breton, 1954-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : time, space, source material, and methods -- Paths to priesthood : preparation, requirements, and acquisition -- Priesthoods of prominence : Athena Polias at Athens, Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, Hera at Argos, and Apollo at Delphi -- Dressing the part : costume, attribute, and mimesis -- The priestess in the sanctuary : implements, portraits, and patronage -- The priestess in action : procession, sacrifice, and benefaction -- Priestly privilege : perquisites, honors, and authority -- Death of the priestess : grave monuments, epitaphs, and public burial -- The end of the line : the coming of Christianity -- Conclusions.…”
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    Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece / by Connelly, Joan Breton, 1954-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : time, space, source material, and methods -- Paths to priesthood : preparation, requirements, and acquisition -- Priesthoods of prominence : Athena Polias at Athens, Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, Hera at Argos, and Apollo at Delphi -- Dressing the part : costume, attribute, and mimesis -- The priestess in the sanctuary : implements, portraits, and patronage -- The priestess in action : procession, sacrifice, and benefaction -- Priestly privilege : perquisites, honors, and authority -- Death of the priestess : grave monuments, epitaphs, and public burial -- The end of the line : the coming of Christianity -- Conclusions.…”
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