Eidenow: Oracles, Curses and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks

Posted on 2007-10-01 by Gabriel Bodard

A very promising new title just spotted in the OUP catalogue:

Esther Eidinow

Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks.

ISBN 978-0-19-927778-0.

Pp. 480.

£80.00 (hardback).

I haven’t had a chance to look at this yet, but according the the press release it includes, in addition to a detailed study of magical practices and the mentality of risk, a catalogue of oracle tablets from Dodona and of 159 curse tablets discussed. (We can only hope that OUP get around to releasing a paperback!)

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One Response to Eidenow: Oracles, Curses and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks

  1. C. Prêtre says:
    2007-10-04 at 05:13

    En ce qui concerne les tablettes oraculaires de Dodone, je me permets de rappeler l’excellent corpus d’Eric Lhôte, “Les Lamelles Oraculaires De Dodone”, Coll. “Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, EPHE, 2006 qui étudie les lamelles d’un point de vue paléographique, historique, philologique et dialectologique.

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