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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2022

Ivana Petrovic
Ivana Petrovic*
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University of Virginia, USA
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Ivana.Petrovic@virginia.edu
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Delphi, one of the most spectacular sites in Europe and an immensely important oracular site of Ancient Greece is the theme of an edited volume originating in a conference organized in 2017. Unlike most conference proceedings, this volume is truly thorough in terms of breadth of coverage, and it is also beautifully produced and equipped with very useful indices which greatly facilitate orientation. There are twenty-three chapters in German and English, divided into six sections: archaeology, the functioning of the oracle, the role of Delphi in Greek history, the representation of the oracle in archaic and classical literature, its role in the theological and philosophical debates of the Roman period, and a brief section on its modern reception. Anyone interested in Delphi will find something useful in this volume.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , October 2022 , pp. 362 - 365
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association

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