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The Ancient Oracles

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300140422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Oracles written by Richard Stoneman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects of oracular consultation. It also examines how Greek oracles' practices were distinctive compared to those of their neighbors, especially in Egypt, Babylon, and Israel. Richard Stoneman weaves a fascinating historical tapestry, taking into account the different kinds of oracles (healers, advisors, prophets, and others), their most important sanctuaries, debates about them among ancient thinkers, and Christian attacks on them. Delving into the reasons behind the oracles' enduring position at the heart of Greek culture, Stoneman offers fresh insights into pagan religious practice and the history of Greek intellectual and spiritual life.

Oracles of the Dead

Author : Robert Temple
Publisher : Destiny Books
ISBN 13 : 9781594770852
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Oracles of the Dead written by Robert Temple and published by Destiny Books. This book was released on 2005-09-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the shadow side of prophecy in human history and our attitudes toward fate and predicting the future • Explores the divinatory techniques and traditions of classical Greece and Rome as compared with ancient China • Contains new information concerning the location of the Greek Oracle of the Dead at Baia • Shows how the latest discoveries in science may validate the system of the I Ching • First U.S. Edition of Netherworld Many methods for predicting the future, such as tarot, runes, the I Ching, and other divinatory oracles, can be traced back to ancient cultures. In Oracles of the Dead Robert Temple examines the Greek and Roman traditions and techniques of divination and compares them to those of ancient China. He reveals the real physical location of the "hell" of the ancient Greeks--known in antiquity as the Oracle of the Dead and used for séances intended to contact the spirits of the dead--and provides photographs from his explorations there. Relating them to the ancient belief in the Oracle of the Dead, Temple examines the various mysteries associated with Delphi and the other oracles of the ancient world and explains how they were used to allow visitors to experience contact with the divine. Furthermore, his examination of the Chinese oracular system shows how the latest developments in science are validating the system of the I Ching.

Histoire Des Oracles

Author : Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016673013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Histoire Des Oracles by : Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)

Download or read book Histoire Des Oracles written by Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Oracle Book

Author : Georgia Routsis Savas
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451656121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Oracle Book written by Georgia Routsis Savas and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oracle Book KNOWS YOUR FUTURE This mysterious book is a do-it-yourself divination tool. Ask a yes-or-no question, and find your answer within...

The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests

Author : Antonius van Dale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests written by Antonius van Dale and published by . This book was released on 1699 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oracles of Apollo

Author : John Opsopaus
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738752258
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Oracles of Apollo written by John Opsopaus and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, divination has been an important tool for seeking guidance from the gods. Fortunately, several classical divination systems are available to us again today. The Oracles of Apollo shows how to use two rediscovered divination systems: the Alphabet Oracle, a system that uses the ancient Greek alphabet, and the Counsels of the Seven Sages, a series of 147 short, oracular statements that were inscribed on tablets at Delphi. This book shares divination techniques and rituals—including the use of alphabet stones, dice, staves, beads, and coins—and interpretations of the outcomes to help you integrate the wisdom of the gods and goddesses. These oracles were originally designed thousands of years ago to provide insights into practical matters and deeper issues...and they can be used again today.

The Sibyls

Author : Mama Zogbé
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0971624569
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Sibyls written by Mama Zogbé and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is now currently the 'holy seat of the Vatican' in Italy, was originally the sacerdotal seat of these ancient black Sibyl Queen Mothers. Centuries before for Christ, they were known to heal the sick, restore dignity and strength to the weak, and restore sight to the blind. They were famous for curing lameness, epileptics, deaf mutes and lepers. They were said to 'cast out demons' and even to 'raise-up the dead' Their prophecies are the oldest and most authentic in the world. They were the basis for Greek and Roman tragedies and plays. More astonishing, their prophetic books were later collected by the Roman authorities, who needed a 'western theological' foundation in order to compete with the powerful levitical Jews. These Sibyl prophecies soon became the sole and undisputed precursor to the western, Christian Bible. .

The Oracle of Night

Author : Sidarta Ribeiro
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524746916
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Oracle of Night written by Sidarta Ribeiro and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and their essential role in the formation of who we are and the world we have made. "A resounding case for the mystery, beauty and cognitive importance of dreams." —The New York Times What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon. An investigation on a grand scale, it encompasses literature, anthropology, religion, and science, articulating the essential place dreams occupy in human culture and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave paintings—where Sidarta Ribeiro locates a key to humankind’s first dreams and how they contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future and our ability to conceive of the existence of souls and spirits—to today’s cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry, and psychology have made into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning. He explains what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been elucidated by contemporary research. Accessible, authoritative, and fascinating, The Oracle of Night gives us a wholly new way to understand this most basic of human experiences.

Omens and Oracles

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317148967
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Omens and Oracles written by Matthew Dillon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addition, there were written collections of oracles in circulation. Many books were available on how to interpret dreams, the birds and entrails, and divination as a religious phenomenon attracted the attention of many writers. Expert diviners were at the heart of Greek prophecy, whether these were Apollo’s priestesses delivering prose or verse answers to questions put to them by consultants, diviners known as manteis, who interpreted entrails and omens, the chresmologoi, who sang the many oracles circulating orally or in writing, or dream interpreters. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the future but also to ensure that the individual or state employing divination acted in accordance with that divinely prescribed future; it was employed by all and had a crucial role to play in what courses of action both states and individuals undertook. Specific attention is paid in this volume not only to the ancient written evidence, but to that of inscriptions and papyri, with emphasis placed on the iconography of Greek divination.

Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199277788
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks written by Esther Eidinow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the question tablets from the oracle at Dodona and binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, These tablets reveal the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, and help us to understand some of the ways in which they managed risk and uncertainty in their daily lives.

The history of oracles, tr. [by S. Whatley. Sig. D6 is mutilated].

Author : Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis The history of oracles, tr. [by S. Whatley. Sig. D6 is mutilated]. by : Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Download or read book The history of oracles, tr. [by S. Whatley. Sig. D6 is mutilated]. written by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sibylline Oracles

Author : Milton S. Terry
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849621782
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Sibylline Oracles written by Milton S. Terry and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.

The History of Oracles. In Two Dissertations ... Translated, Etc. [by S. Whatley].

Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The History of Oracles. In Two Dissertations ... Translated, Etc. [by S. Whatley]. written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Delphi

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169845
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Delphi written by Michael Scott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This work engages with the complex archaeological development of the religious sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. It investigates the physical remains of both sanctuaries to show how different visitors interacted with the sacred spaces of Delphi and Olympia in an important variety of ways during the archaic and classical periods.

Greek Oracles (Routledge Revivals)

Author : H. W. Parke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138015579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Greek Oracles (Routledge Revivals) written by H. W. Parke and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Oracles, first published in 1967, presents an iintroduction to an often under-acknowledged aspect of the ancient world: its religion.From the individual with a reputation for divination to a priesthood officially recognised by the state, the wide field of prophecy was dominated by its traditional oracular centres, pre-eminently Delphi.Conclusions are based on an examination of this latter oracle throughout the thousand years when Graeco-Roman religious culture was oriented towards prophecy.

Oracles

Author : Barbara Fédier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783906803166
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Oracles written by Barbara Fédier and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 123 calling cards of artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, graphic designers, illustrators etc.) from the 18th century to the present day. The facsimiled cards are slipped like bookmarks into a book by several authors on the history of the use of calling cards, the social context in which they were produced, and related historical and fictional narratives. The often unexpected graphic qualities of these personalized objects, each designed to capture an individual identity within the narrow confines of a tiny rectangle card, implicitly recount a history of taste and typographic codes in the West. But this calling card collection also lays the foundations for a microhistory of art, inspired by the Italian microstoria, or a looser narrative that breaks free from geographic contexts and historical periods. We can imagine how social networks were formed before the advent of Facebook, and how artists defined themselves in the social sphere, whether they were students or teachers, dean of the art school or museum curator, founder of a journal, firm, restaurant or political party, and so on. Superimposed on this imaginary or idealized network formed by chance encounters is a living network of students of art or history, historians or anthropologists, librarians, archivists, gallerists, museum curators and artists themselves, the network upon which this pocket museum is constructed. The sheer variety of perspectives and stories brought together here makes this book a prodigious forum for discussion. (source : éditeur).

The Oracle

Author : William J. Broad
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143038597
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Oracle written by William J. Broad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping modern-day detective story about the scientific quest to understand the Oracle of Delphi Like Walking the Bible, this fascinating book turns a modern eye on an enduring legend. The Oracle of Delphi was one of the most influential figures in ancient Greece. Human mistress of the god Apollo, she had the power to enter into ecstatic communion with him and deliver his prophesies to men. Thousands of years later, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William J. Broad follows a crew of enterprising researchers as they sift through the evidence of history, geology, and archaeology to reveal—as far as science is able—the source of her visions.