Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses

Preface ......Page 5
Abbreviations ......Page 9
Introduction ......Page 11
I. The Characteristics of Recorded Oracles ......Page 19
Modes of Expression in Historical and Legendary Responses ......Page 21
The Topics of Historical and Legendary Responses ......Page 32
he Question Formulae of Historical and Legendary Consulations ......Page 43
The Occasions of Consulation ......Page 47
Observations ......Page 50
The Characteristics of Quasi-Historical Responses ......Page 52
Addendum ......Page 64
Jerusalem Chamber ......Page 66
Macduff and Birnam Wood ......Page 70
Equivocal Predictions of Death of Fortune ......Page 73
Distinctive Sign ......Page 78
Traditional Themes in Oracular Tales ......Page 81
Riddlers ......Page 87
Proverbs ......Page 91
III. The Transmission and Attribution of Narrative Oracles ......Page 96
Prophecy in Legend and Epic ......Page 97
The Citation and Quotation of Narrative Oracles ......Page 101
Narrative  Oracles  Originally  Non-Delphic ......Page 103
Narrative  Oracles  Invented  as  Delphic  Responses ......Page 115
Adventitious  Oracles ......Page 125
The  Cyrenaic  Oracles ......Page 128
The  Tegean  Oracles ......Page 131
The  Wooden  Wall ......Page 132
The  Tomb  of  Pausanias ......Page 137
The  Locrian  Maidens ......Page 139
Colonization  Oracles ......Page 145
Oracles  Variously  Ascribed ......Page 153
Seers  and  Chresmologues ......Page 160
The  Oracle  Collections ......Page 166
Opening  Formulae  of  Traditional  Verse  Oracles ......Page 174
The  Structure  of  Traditional  Verse  Oracles ......Page 182
The  Characteristics  of  Authentic  Verse  Responses ......Page 194
VII. The  Mantic  Session ......Page 204
Chasm  and  Vapors ......Page 205
The  Pythia’s  Ecstasy ......Page 212
The  Speaking  of  Responses ......Page 220
The  Mantic  Ritual ......Page 232
Addendum:  Procedures  of  Other  Oracles ......Page 236
Conclusion ......Page 241
Catalogue  of  Delphic  Responses ......Page 248
Catalogue  of  Responses  of  Didyma ......Page 424
Appendix A. Correspondence of PW Numbers with the Catalogue ......Page 438
Appendix B. Summary of Modes, Topics, Question Formulae, Occasions ......Page 444
Bibliography ......Page 453
Index ......Page 458
A. Index Locorum ......Page 459
B. General Index ......Page 466