Información General

• Autores: Hugh Bowden (coord.), Esther Eidinow (coord.)
• Editores: Cambridge University Press
• Año de publicación: 2025
• Colecciones: Ancient religion and cognition
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-009-63221-8, 978-1-009-63224-9, 978-1-009-63223-2
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Resumen

• Previous studies of Greek oracles have largely studied their social and political connections. In contrast, this pioneering volume explores the experience of visiting the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in NW Greece, focusing on the role of the senses and embodied cognition. Building on the unique corpus of oracular question tablets found at the site, it investigates how this experience made new ways of knowing and new forms of knowledge available. Combining traditional treatments of evidence with more recent theoretical approaches, including from psychology, narratology and environmental humanities, the chapters explore the role of nature, sound, touch, and stories in the experience of consultation. By evoking the details of this experience, they help the reader understand more deeply what it was like for ancient men and women to visit the oracle and ask the god for help. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Listado de artículos

• • Site and Senses

    • Introduction: Contexts and Chronotopes

      Esther Eidinow

      págs. 1-16

      

    • ‘At a Time When the Temple of Dodonean Zeus HadNo Walls’ until the First Century BCE

      Eleni Vasileiou

      págs. 17-33

      

    • Pilgrimage to Dodona: Visibility, Movement, Motivation

      Diego Chapinal Heras

      págs. 34-57

      

    • What Can the Lead Tell Us?

      Hugh Bowden

      págs. 58-79

      

    • Materialist Insights: The Tablets of Dodona as Objects

      Erica Angliker

      págs. 80-96

      

    • Soundscape and Religious Experience at Dodona

      Katerina Kolotourou

      págs. 97-120

      

  • Consultation and Cognition

    • TheLost ‘Instructions for Use’ of the Dodonaean Lamellae

      Pierre Bonnechere

      págs. 123-146

      

    • Master of Clarity: The Utterances of Zeus Dodonaiosin Fifth-Century Tragedy

      Jessica Piccinini

      págs. 147-168

      

    • Selves, Self-talk and Stories in the Dodona Oracle QuestionTablets

      Esther Eidinow

      págs. 169-189

      

    • The Environmental Dimension of Consultations at Dodona: Negotiating Material Practice, Performing Resilience

      Christopher Martin Schliephake

      págs. 190-213

      

    • Consulting the Oracle at Dodona: An Ontological Perspective

      Michael A. Flower

      págs. 214-239