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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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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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? -- Athenaeus: encountering the divine in word and wood -- Religion and storytelling in ancient Greece -- Plutarch, a philosophical enquiry into an enigmatic sign