Pythiai and Inspired Divination in the Delphic Oracle: Can Cognitive Sciences Provide Us with an Access to ?Dead Minds?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jch.v1i1.24" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jch.v1i1.24</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jch.v1i1.24" target="_blank" >10.1558/jch.v1i1.24</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pythiai and Inspired Divination in the Delphic Oracle: Can Cognitive Sciences Provide Us with an Access to ?Dead Minds?

Original language description

The aim of this article is to deepen our knowledge of mantic procedures used at Delphi, especially with respect to the mental state of the Pythia, which was induced in the course of oracular sessions. The first section provides a short reconstruction ofthe Delphic oracular session based on the information gleaned from historical and (to lesser extent) archaeological sources. The second section aims for clarification of some contentious points, which are still the subject of intensive scholarly debatesand controversies. They concern particularly questions about the authorship of pronounced oracles and the method by which the Pythia brought about her reputed mantic abilities. The third section raises a question about how and to what degree our knowledge about the history of the Delphic oracle and the Pythias behaviour in the course of oracular consultations is deepened by looking at it from the perspective of cognitive psychology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Cognitive Historiography

ISSN

2051-9672

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

24-51

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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