Oracles Of The Dead
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Oracles Of The Dead
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Author : Robert Temple
language : en
Publisher: Destiny Books
Release Date : 2005-09-07
Oracles Of The Dead written by Robert Temple and has been published by Destiny Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-07 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
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.
Spqr Xii Oracle Of The Dead
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Author : John Maddox Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2008-12-09
Spqr Xii Oracle Of The Dead written by John Maddox Roberts and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-09 with Fiction categories.
Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year's magistrate for cases involving foreigners, is living the good life in southern Italy, happy to be away from Rome, a city suffering war jitters over Caesar's impending actions. He thinks he is merely visiting one of the local sights when he takes a party to visit the Oracle of the Dead, a pre-Roman cult site located at the end of a tunnel dug beneath a temple of Apollo. He quickly learns that there is a bitter rivalry between the priests of Apollo and those of Hecate, who guard the oracle. When the priests of Apollo are all killed, the countryside looks to explode in violence as Greeks, Romans and native Italians of several conquered nations bring out old enmities. Decius is caught squarely in the middle, desperate to find a way out that will pacify the district and, incidentally, save his own skin. This riveting series began with the Edgar Award-nominated SPQR and has gone on to international success in 13 languages.
Omens And Oracles
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Author : Matthew Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Omens And Oracles written by Matthew Dillon and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with History categories.
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.
Nekyomanteia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Nekyomanteia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
The Last Oracle
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Author : James Rollins
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-09-18
The Last Oracle written by James Rollins and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-18 with Fiction categories.
Can the past save the future? asks this SIGMA Force thriller from the king of the genre. In Washington DC, a homeless man dies in the arms of Commander Gray Pierce clutching a bloody coin in his hand - an ancient artefact that could unlock a plot threatening the very foundation of humanity. Meanwhile, a group of international scientists are engineering children with exceptional talents into something far greater and far more frightening - a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be manipulated to create a new era of global peace... a peace on their own terms. For Commander Pierce and SIGMA Force, it's a race against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the Oracle of Delphi...
The Encyclop Dia Britannica
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Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Encyclop Dia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The Mystery Of The Oracles
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Author : Philipp Vandenberg
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1982
The Mystery Of The Oracles written by Philipp Vandenberg and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
Urban Oracles
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Author : Mayra Santos-Febres
language : en
Publisher: Brookline Books
Release Date : 1997
Urban Oracles written by Mayra Santos-Febres and has been published by Brookline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
Collection of stories that draws us into a world pulsing with desires.
The Encyclopedia Britannica
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The Encyclopedia Britannica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
Restless Dead
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Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Restless Dead written by Sarah Iles Johnston and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with History categories.
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it. She draws on both well-known sources, such as Athenian tragedies, and newer texts, such as the Derveni Papyrus and a recently published lex sacra from Selinous. Topics of focus include the origin of the goes (the ritual practitioner who made interaction with the dead his specialty), the threat to the living presented by the ghosts of those who died dishonorably or prematurely, the development of Hecate into a mistress of ghosts and its connection to female rites of transition, and the complex nature of the Erinyes. Restless Dead culminates with a new reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia that emphasizes how Athenian myth and cult manipulated ideas about the dead to serve political and social ends.