Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy

by Esther Eidinow

Book Overview

The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era, drawing on approaches to cognitive anthropology. Perhaps the most famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle at Delphi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195380789
• ISBN13: 9780195380781
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"