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4 1. Oracles, Greek. 2. Divination — Greece. 3. Greece —
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Thee, the son of God most high, 2
Famed for harping song, will I 3
Proclaim, and the deathless oracular word 4
From the snow-topped rock that we gaze on heard, 5
Counsels of thy glorious giving 6
Manifest for all men living, 7
How thou madest the tripod of prophecy thine 8
Which the wrath of the dragon kept guard on, a shrine 9
Voiceless till thy shafts could smite 20
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Ye that hold of right alone 3
All deep woods on Helicon 4
Fair daughters of thunder-girt God, with your bright 5
White arms uplift as to lighten the light 6
Come to chant your brother’s praise, 7
Golden Phoebus, loud in lays. 8
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1 Why Did the Greeks Consult Oracles? 5 5
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2 Possession or Policy: The Case of Delphi 26
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3 The Riddles of the Pythia 40 8
4 From Egypt to Dodona 55 9
5 The Gods, the Heroes and the Dead 65 20
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8 Dicing for Destiny 132 4
9 Foreknowledge, Fate and Philosophy 149 5
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3 1 Oedipus consults the Delphic oracle. Still from Pier Paolo Pasolini,
4 Edipo Re, 1967. Courtesy of the British Film Institute. 6
5 2 Alexander the Great prays to Sarapis before the founding of Alexandria.
6 Venice, Hellenic Institute Codex 5, f. 48r. 9
7 3 A late Ching representation of the legendary Emperor Shun and his
ministers consulting the oracles of the tortoiseshell and the milfoil,
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1644–c.1900. From Needham 1954. fig 43. 17
9 4 ‘Hammurabi hallucinating judgements from his god Marduk’ and
20 ‘Tukulti stands and then kneels before the empty throne of his god’,
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2 5 The Pythia seated on the tripod and giving responses. From Van Dale
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6 Delphi. Temple of Apollo. 28
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7 Aegeus consults Themis, who sits on a tripod in the posture of the
5 Pythia. Attic red figure cup by the Codrus painter, fifth century BC,
6 Berlin Mus. 2538, reproduced from Eduard Gerhard, Auserlesene
7 griechischen Vasenbilder, vol. 4 no. 328; Berlin, 1858. 29
8 8 John Collier, Priestess of Delphi, 1891. Art Gallery of South Australia. 32
9 9 Preparation for rendering and receiving responses at Delphi. From
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10 The temple of Zeus at Dodona. Photo: Richard Stoneman. 56
1 11 Ammon is borne on the shoulders of priests in order to give oracular
2 responses. Egyptian relief. New Kingdom. From Černy 1962, 37. 59
3 12 Ayia Triadha sarcophagus, c.1400 BC. Photo: Richard Stoneman. 68
4 13 J.W. Waterhouse, Consulting the Oracle. Tate Britain. 69
5 14 Landscape of the mouth of the Acheron, seen from the ‘Oracle of the
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15 The so-called Oracle of the Dead, Nekyomanteion, on the Acheron.
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1 42 The title page of the first edition (1683) of Anton van Dale, De Oraculis,
2 showing exultant soldiers destroying the pagan shrines. 200
3 43 A coin of Leo VI, The Wise AD 886–912. Collection of Richard
Stoneman. 216
4 44 From a manuscript of The Oracles of Leo the Wise, 1577 (Bodl. Barocc
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10 2 Western Asia Minor. xvi
1 3 South-eastern Asia Minor and the Levant. xvii
2 4 Dice oracles of Lycia and neighbouring regions. xviii
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The idea for this book arose from a series of visits to the western coast of 2
Turkey from the mid-1990s, lecturing about classical sites on gület holidays 3
with Westminster Classic Tours. A theme for a tour is always attractive, and 4
as we visited at various times the sites of Pergamon, Erythrae, Didyma, 5
Labranda, Claros, Cnidus, Telmessos, Olympos, Limyra, Patara and Sura, 6
the importance of oracles as a strand running through the lives of the 7
ancient inhabitants of the region insistently presented itself. What began 8
as a light-hearted exposition of some remarkable phenomena deepened 9
itself, as it began to take the form of a book, into an exploration of some 20
intriguing and, perhaps, perennial features of the human psyche. Early 1
listeners to these talks raised many pertinent questions and I am grateful 2
to all the guests on those tours as well as to the Anglo-Turkish Society for 3
inviting me to give an illustrated talk on the subject in December 2003. The 4
receptiveness of Heather McCallum at Yale University Press to the idea 5
gave me the impetus to produce the present book. 6
I am grateful, as always, to the libraries that have been indispensable to 7
my research: the London Library and the Institute of Classical Studies. 8
Since moving to Exeter in 2006 I have been able to make full use of the 9
privileges afforded to Honorary Fellows of the University of Exeter, 30
including its library and office facilities. 1
I am particularly grateful to the two anonymous readers for the Press, as 2
well as to Rachael Lonsdale, for their acute and systematic reviews of an 3
earlier version of the text. All faults that remain, as those who consult 4
oracles know well, are mine and not those of the advisers. 5
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Standard abbreviations for classical journals may be found in the Oxford
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ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 9
Ant Class Antiquité Classique 20
AP Anthologia Palatina
APF J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families (Oxford 1971)
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CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 3
CJ Classical Journal 4
Coll. Alex. Collectanea Alexandrina, ed. J.U. Powell (Oxford 1925) 5
CRAI Comptes rendues de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 6
Delt Ch AE Deltion tes Christianikes Arkhaiologikes Etaireias
DK Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz
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HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 9
HThR Harvard Theological Review 30
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IGRRP Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 2
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JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
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JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology 5
JRS Journal of Roman Studies 6
LdÄ Lexikon der Ägyptologie 7
LSCG Lois sacrées des cites grecques 8
Mus. Helv. Museum Helveticum
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