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20200916142824.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780195380781 (hbk) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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MSU |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
BF1778 EID |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Eidinow, Esther |
| Dates associated with a name |
1970- |
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Author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Luck, fate, and fortune |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Esther Eidinow. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oxford ; |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
213 pages |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Ancients and moderns series |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The cultural impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Perhaps the most famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle of Delphi. How the world of antiquity, and particularly the ancient Greeks, tried to foretell the outcome of the present, serves as Esther Eidinow's starting-point for an appraisal of that legacy of forecasting in our own era. Delphi is still invoked when business people discuss future strategy and risk; these is even a strategic planning technique called the "Delphi Method." But the Delphic Oracle is only the best known example of a physical landscape covered by oracular sanctuaries; while across classical literary genres, there are myriad tales - such as that of doomed Oedipus - which wrestle with the cruel vicissitudes of fate and fortune. Exploring notions of destiny related by writers like Homer, Herodotus, and Sophocles, Esther Eidinow discusses ancient augurial theories and methods, including sacrifice, cleromancy (dicing), and astromancy (telling of the stars). She then turns to ideas about moral luck and later Roman use of prophecy for maintenance of the pax deorum. Drawing on modern texts as diverse as the Terminator films and Solitaire's tarot reading in Live and Let Die, the author shows how the the recurring questions "what if?" and "why me?" are a fundamental part of what it means to be human, whether in the ancient past or the present day. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Fortune |
| Geographic subdivision |
Greece |
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History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Fate and fatalism |
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History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Fortune in literature |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Fate and fatalism in literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Greek literature |
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History and criticism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |