| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) |
| Series |
Ancients and moderns series |
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Ancients and moderns series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Philosophies of Fate -- Chapter II. A Ministry of Misfortune -- Chapter III. Oedipus: A Tragedy of Fates -- Chapter IV. Cultural Models and Shifting Meanings -- Chapter V. The Archaic Poets: Politics of Fortune -- Chapter VI. Herodotus: Patterns of Fate -- Chapter VII. Thucydides: Rhetorics of Coincidence -- Chapter VIII. The Resurrection of Chance -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era. Perhaps the most famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle at Delphi. But the Delphic Oracle is only the best-known example from a landscape covered by oracular sanctuaries; while across the literary genres of antiquity there are myriad tales - such as that of doom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-207) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fortune -- Greece -- History
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Fate and fatalism -- History
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Fortune in literature.
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Fate and fatalism in literature.
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Divination -- Fortune Telling.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Prophecy.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Divination -- General.
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Fate and fatalism
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Fate and fatalism in literature
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Fortune
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Fortune in literature
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Greek literature
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857719539 |
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085771953X |
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