The Road to Delphi
Subtitle: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles
Publisher: Picador
Published: July 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312423070
Subjects: History; World - General; History / World; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: What do we make of the extended metaphorical afterlife of oracles, an institution that in the West ended ages ago, in the first centuries after the birth of Christ?