Oracles Of The Dead

Author : Robert Temple
Publisher : Destiny Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1594770859

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Oracles of the Dead by Robert Temple Pdf

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.

Author : John Maddox Roberts
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429939990

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SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead by John Maddox Roberts Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148968

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Omens and Oracles by Matthew Dillon Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691207063

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Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden Pdf

In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language. Daniel Ogden surveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. He investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts. He argues that the Acheron oracle has been long misidentified, and considers in detail the traditions attached to each site. Readers meet the personnel--real or imagined--of ancient necromancy: ghosts, zombies, the earliest vampires, evocators, sorcerers, shamans, Persian magi, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, Roman emperors, and witches from Circe to Medea. Ogden explains the technologies used to evocate or reanimate the dead and to compel them to disgorge their secrets. He concludes by examining ancient beliefs about ghosts and their wisdom--beliefs that underpinned and justified the practice of necromancy. The first of its kind and filled with information, this volume will be of central importance to those interested in the rapidly expanding, inherently fascinating, and intellectually exciting subjects of ghosts and magic in antiquity.

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0520217071

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Restless Dead by Sarah Iles Johnston Pdf

"[This work] will represent the principal study of ancient Greek beliefs in the intervention of the dead, a topic of acute relevance to the study of classical literature, Greek religion, and the later cultures that spawned curse tablets and versions of Christianity."—David Frankfurter, author of Religion in Roman Egypt "This is an incontestably useful book. . . . The author's scholarship is remarkable and her competence indisputable. Her laudably courageous and original analysis of the Erinyes leads us from archaic poetry, via the purificatory rituals and reforms of cult brought about by the mysterious Epimenides, to the Orphic tradition recently discovered in the Derveni papyrus—all of which enables Sarah Johnston to conclude by proposing an enthralling rereading of Aeschylus' Oresteia."—Philippe Borgeaud, author of The Cult of Pan in Ancient Greece

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191557224

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Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks by Esther Eidinow Pdf

How did ancient Greek men and women deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life? What did they fear most, and how did they manage their anxieties? Esther Eidinow sets side-by-side two collections of material usually studied in isolation: binding curse tablets from across the ancient world, and the collection of published private questions from the oracle at Dodona in north-west Greece. Eidinow uses these texts to explore perceptions of risk and uncertainty in ancient society, challenging previous explanations. In these records we hear voices that are rarely, if ever, heard in literary texts and history books. The questions and curses in these tablets comprise fervent, sometimes ferocious appeals to the gods. The stories they tell offer tantalizing glimpses of everyday life, carrying the reader through the teeming ancient city - both its physical setting and its social dynamics. Among these tablets we find prostitutes and publicans, doctors and soldiers, netmakers and silver-workers, actors and seamstresses. Anxious litigants ask the gods to silence their opponents. Men inquire about the paternity of their children. Women beg the gods to help them keep their men. Business rivals try to corner the market. Slaves plead to escape their masters. This material takes us beyond the headlines of ancient history, offering new insights into institutions, activities, and relationships. Above all, individually and together, these texts help us to understand some of the ways in which ancient Greek men and women understood the world. In turn, the beliefs and activities of an ancient culture may shed light on modern attitudes to risk.

Author : James Rollins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061792885

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The Last Oracle by James Rollins Pdf

In this superb thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind. Salvation . . . or annihilation? What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet—the next Buddha, Mohammed, or even Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? Formed during the Cold War, a think tank of world scientists known as the JASONS have discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents—mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists. Yet among their young patients a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully, a rogue group of the JASONS begins their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. Their goal, to create a world prophet for the new millennium, one who can be manipulated to create a new era of global peace . . . a peace on their own terms, that is. But such manipulation has grim consequences as a biological meltdown among the children begins to occur—turning the innocent into something far more frightening. To stop the JASONS before they engineer the extinction of mankind, Commander Gray Pierce of SIGMA Force races against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history—the Greek Oracle of Delphi. But can the past save the future?

Author : Lucy M. Falcone
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781553377092

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Walking with the Dead by Lucy M. Falcone Pdf

In this frightfully funny novel by L.M. Falcone, an ancient corpse launches two boys on a suspenseful journey through the netherworld.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : OXFORD:303319836

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith Pdf

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444303001

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Ancient Greek Divination by Sarah Iles Johnston Pdf

The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatorymethods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yetdetailed treatment of the earliest attempts by ancient Greeks toseek the counsel of the gods. Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners,do-it-yourself methods of foretelling the future, magicaldivinatory techniques, and much more Illustrates how the study of divination illuminates thementalities of ancient Greek religions and societies

Author : Charles Athon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by Charles Athon Pdf

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112122679456

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Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck Pdf

Author : Victor Failmezger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1467579599

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Paget, Discoverer of Hades by Victor Failmezger Pdf

Author : M.A.DWIGHT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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GRECIAN AND ROMAN by M.A.DWIGHT Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Dwight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Mythology, Classical
ISBN : NYPL:33433068184872

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Grecian and Roman Mythology by Mary Ann Dwight Pdf