100
PROPHECIES OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE
[Prophetic Advice from the God Apollo]
City-State
Press
176
pages (with index), non-fiction, paperback, published May 2001,
available on order from Amazon online and any bookstore.
ISBN
0-9709265-0-2 Price:
$ 12.95
Explains the operation
and 1000 years’ fame of Apollo’s Oracle at Delphi.
100
selected prophecies on a variety of subjects act as a vehicle for introducing
Ancient Greece, this extraordinary period in human experience (history,
personalities, philosophy, drama, culture).
Includes
prophecies dealing with city-states Athens and Sparta, Socrates and
Pericles, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, Oedipus and Hercules,
the Olympic Games, medical cures . . .
Contains
a fair amount of humor as well (e.g. a pilgrim’s "inability
to laugh", and another pilgrim’s "inability to stop laughing").
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