Description: An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.
Brief description: Julia Kindt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Rethinking Greek Religion (Cambridge, 2012) and has co-edited, with E. Eidinow, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015). She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ancient History and a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Religion.
Review Quotes: 'This book is intended for the specialist reader and for those who wish to think more deeply about the place of religion in ancient Greek society. ... It is certainly a volume to which one could return and find stimulation for further ideas.' Marion Gibbs, Classics For All