This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFATORY NOTE. In reprinting this Essay from Hellenica, I have thought it needless to repeat my original list of authorities consulted. Since the Essay was written M. Bouch DEGREES-Leclercq has published his Histoire de la Divination dans VAntiquiU, where the bibliography of the subject is given with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFATORY NOTE. In reprinting this Essay from Hellenica, I have thought it needless to repeat my original list of authorities consulted. Since the Essay was written M. Bouch DEGREES-Leclercq has published his Histoire de la Divination dans VAntiquiU, where the bibliography of the subject is given with exhaustive fulness. The chief references to oracles in classical authors have been long ago collected, and are now the common property of scholars. The last considerable addition to the list was made by G. Wolff, and they have been judiciously arranged by Maury and others. What is needed is a true comprehension of them, towards which less progress has been made than the ordinary reader may suppose. Even Bouchd-Leclercq, whose accuracy and completeness within his self-proposed limits deserve high admiration, expressly excludes from his purview the lessons and methods of comparative ethnology, and hardly cares to consider what those phenomena in reality were whose history he is recounting. I can claim little more of insight into their true nature than suffices to make me conscious of ignorance, but I have at least tried to indicate where the problems lie, and in what general directions we must look for their solution. It is indeed true (as was remarked by several critics when this Essay first appeared) that I have kept but inadequately my implied promise of illustrating ancient mysteries by the light of modern discovery. But my difficulty lay not in the defect but in the excess of parallelism between ancient and modern phenomena. I found that each explicit reference of this kind would raise so many questions that the sequence of the narrative would soon have been destroyed. I was obliged, therefore, to content myself with suggestions
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Rebound in green cloth, gilt lettering on backstrip. Binding is cracked and pages 65-144 are loose. Pages are clean and text is clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Vol. 1 University library withdrawal with shaken front hinge, but otherwise tight and square. 3 gilt edges. Wear to edges of pebbled red leather. Marbled endpapers. 5 raised bands to spine (as well as library sticker). Slight spotting to endpapers, but contents bright, fresh and unmarked. 223 pp in three parts: Greek Oracles-Virgil-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; Vol. 1.
