The seeming oxymoron of the historical detective novel often setin eras before police or...Miller, Sarah Bryan
S1E8prometheus-Xena and an ex-lover defeat an army of mutant bird babies, while Gabrielle tellsthe mostromantic story!MEANWHILEHayley researches the Goddess HeraANDwhat Prometheus was really all about, and Justine researches the Labors of Hercules and Ancient Greek Oracles!
S1E8prometheus-Xena and an ex-lover defeat an army of mutant bird babies, while Gabrielle tellsthe mostromantic story!MEANWHILEHayley researches the Goddess HeraANDwhat Prometheus was really all about, and Justine researches the Labors of Hercules and Ancient Greek Oracles!
"Oracles helped ancient society to cope with uncertainty and risk. We are focusing on the oracle at Dodona because thousands of questions have survived from the site, written on lead tablets.
When they were interrogated, they evoked their demons by the sound of the tambourine, shaking it furiously; then falling into an ecstasy, they feigned to receive answers from their familiar spirits, and proclaimed them as oracles. It is rather curious, too, that table-rapping and table-turning...
* Delphi, Clarus and Didyma were the sites of oracles of the god. The meaning of some of his titles remain obscure:-- Greek Name Μαλεατος Μαλοεις Ακριτης Καρινος Transliteration Maleatos Maloeis ...
They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exerc...
53 The Lydians who were to bring these gifts to the temples were instructed by Croesus to inquire of the oracles whether he was to send an army against the Persians and whether he was to add an army of allies. (2) When the Lydians came to the places where they were sent, they pres...
Fortunately, the second-wave of feminism has brought new light to history, and many historians have and continue to uncover the full past of women. Recently women’s history in reference to the Pythia at Delphi has argued that the Pythia was responsible for the oracles and that all historical...
The Argives had avoided invasions in 390 and 389 by moving the sacred month of the Carnea to match the Spartan preparations. After accepting this for two years, King Agesipolis visited the oracles and Olympia and Delphi to get permission to ignore this trick. The oracles agreed, and the kin...