The Road to Delphi
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: January 1, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780701165468
Subjects: Fortune-telling & divination; History; Popular culture; Popular psychology; Sociology
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?