Eidinow Esther: Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: 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 at Delphi. And 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…