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Delphic Oracle U.S.A. by Steven Mayfield
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646032921Author Steven MayfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Regal House Publishing... -
The Delphick Oracle by Delphic Oracle 9780461629217
Booksplease Price: £17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461629217Author Delphic OracleFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Theoclea (The Delphic Oracle) and Pythagoras in Egypt Panorpheus 9780615502267
Booksplease Price: £13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615502267Author PanorpheusFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Panorpheus PressPublisher... -
Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy by Hugh Bowden
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.99The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's... -
The Delphic Oracle: Apollo Speaks by Dr Jeffrey Donner 9781732014329
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732014329Author Dr Jeffrey DonnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Dr. Jeffrey DonnerPublisher... -
The Delphic Oracle on Europe: Is there a Future for the European Union? by Loukas Tsoukalis 9780199593842
Booksplease Price: £119.95The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-oriented backgrounds from all over Europe. The chapters reflect on ways... -
Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy by Hugh Bowden 9780521823739
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.17The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's... -
The Delphic Oracle: Its Early History, Influence and Fall by T Dempsey 9781497988453
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £27.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497988453Author T DempseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher... -
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses by Joseph Fontenrose 9780520331303
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.47This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses by Joseph Fontenrose 9780520370296
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.19The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses explores the enigmatic and storied institution of the Delphic Oracle, separating historical reality from myth and modern... -
Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green 9780520208117
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries... -
Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity Esther Eidinow 9781032474861
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.Each chapter in this collection places gender... -
W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise by Sean Pryor 9781138383968
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats... -
Psyche: The cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks by Erwin Rohde
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written around 1925, This book entitled Psyche, offers an... -
Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Longlisted, Nelson Ball Poetry Prize "I used to think this was a book about a disguise,but now I know that it's a book about translation." According to... -
Electra by Sophocles by David Bolton 9780244524487
RRP: £9.50Booksplease Price: £9.03A new translation of Sophocles' Electra by David Bolton. The translation combines prose and verse and aims to be an authentic rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its spirit. The... -
The Last Oracle: A SIGMA Force Novel by James Rollins 9780061562686
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £22.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061562686Author James RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity Crystal Addey 9781032041728
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of... -
Prophets and Profits: Ancient Divination and Its Reception by Richard Evans 9780367594619
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume examines the ways in which divination, often through oracular utterances and other mechanisms, linked mortals with the gods, and places the practice within the ancient sociopolitical and... -
Seers, Shrines and Sirens: The Greek Religious Revolution in the Sixth Century B.C. John Pollard 9781032758763
Booksplease Price: £108.43Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to... -
Seers, Shrines and Sirens: The Greek Religious Revolution in the Sixth Century B.C. John Pollard 9781032758770
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to... -
The King's Question by Brian Culhane 9781555975111
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.20In poet Brian Culhane's The King's Question, fragments of the ancient past emerge from contemporary life to reveal rich and resonant correspondences. So the glow of a writer's desk lamp evokes the... -
Euripides: Ion by Euripides 9780521593618
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £71.19Ion is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a rare example of... -
From Delos to Delphi: A Literary Study of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo by A.M. Miller 9789004076747
Booksplease Price: £50.82This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious... -
Mystic Verses Full Color by Mary Teresa Clayton 9781329250413
RRP: £57.59Booksplease Price: £48.43"She is eerily cabalistic, a strangely esoteric embodiment of the ethereal, this Delphic Oracle of Oracles who is possessed with a knowledge of past, present and future that defies... -
Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite by Nicholas Richardson 9780521457743
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.99These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of... -
A Short History of Ancient Greece by P.J. Rhodes 9781350127524
Booksplease Price: £17.19Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and... -
Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy by Esther Eidinow 9781845118426
Booksplease Price: £102.21The 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... -
Clinical Applied Psychophysiology: Sponsored by Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback by John G. Carlson 9780306445552
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although the injunction "Know thyself" was inscribed over the site of the Delphic Oracle, the concept is of much more ancient lineage. Thousands of years ago, the wise men of the East had... -
Clinical Applied Psychophysiology: Sponsored by Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback by John G. Carlson 9781475797053
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although the injunction "Know thyself" was inscribed over the site of the Delphic Oracle, the concept is of much more ancient lineage. Thousands of years ago, the wise men of the East had learned to... -
Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction by Clifford A. Pickover 9781573928953
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92For countless generations people of every culture have practiced a broad range of dramatic and sometimes frightening techniques to peer into the future. In this fascinating book acclaimed author... -
The Roman Mysteries: The Beggar of Volubilis: Book 14 Caroline Lawrence 9781842556047
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Flavia and her friends are on a quest for the Emperor Titus - to steal a valuable gemstone known as 'Nero's Eye'. The Delphic Oracle prophesied that whoever owns the gem will rule Rome - so Titus is... -
The Ironic Defense of Socrates: Plato's Apology by David M. Leibowitz
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book offers a controversial interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates. By paying unusually close attention to what Socrates indicates about the meaning and extent of his irony, David... -
The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch by Frances B. Titchener 9780521766227
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £85.56Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source, and the numerous essays in his Moralia, covering... -
The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch by Frances B. Titchener 9780521176569
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.24Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source, and the numerous essays in his Moralia, covering... -
The Ironic Defense of Socrates: Plato's Apology by David M. Leibowitz 9780521194792
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69This book offers a controversial interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates. By paying unusually close attention to what Socrates indicates about the meaning and extent of his irony, David... -
Socrates and Self-Knowledge by Christopher Moore 9781107558472
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this book, the first systematic study of Socrates' reflections on self-knowledge, Christopher Moore examines the ancient precept 'Know yourself' and, drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and... -
Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece by Julia Kindt
Booksplease Price: £32.12Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites... -
Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece by Julia Kindt 9781107151574
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites... -
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Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite by Nicholas Richardson 9780521451581 [USED COPY]
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £14.51These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of...