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The Delphic Oracle
Its Responses and Operations
- First published1978
- TraditionDivination
- Shelf84 books
A critical catalogue of the more than five hundred recorded responses of the Delphic oracle, sorted by the reliability of their evidence. Fontenrose argued that genuine responses were usually plain and that the famous riddling answers belong mostly to later legend.














