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8. Kittos consults Dodona: Eidinow, Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks, p. 102, no. 6
Will Kittos get the freedom from Dionysios that Dionysios promised him?
9. Dodona consulted about stolen cloth: Parke, Oracles of Zeus, no. 29
Did Dorkilos steal the cloth?
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See also Herodotus 6.77 for the section concerning the Argives.
17. Phokians consult Delphi about the Thessalians: Pausanias 10.1.4 (trans. Jones) (= Fontenrose Q117)
The Thessalians, more enraged than ever against the Phokians, gathered levies from all their cities and marched
out against them. Whereupon the Phokians, greatly terrified at the army of the Thessalians, especially at the
number of their cavalry and the practised discipline of both mounts and riders, despatched a mission to Delphi,
praying the god that they might escape the danger that threatened them.
For the Athenians wooden walls oracle, see Herodotos 7.140-142.
Incubation
21. At the sanctuary of Amphiaraos at Oropos: Pausanias 1.34.5 (trans. Jones)
One who has come to consult Amphiaraos is wont first to purify himself. The mode of purification is first to
sacrifice to the god, and they sacrifice not only to him but also to all those whose names are on the altar. And
when all these things have been first done, they sacrifice a ram, and, spreading the skin under them, go to sleep
and await enlightenment in a dream.
22. Regulations at the sanctuar of Amphiraos at Oropos: Rhodes and Osborne 27.36-48 (trans. Rhodes
and Osborne)
Whoever needs to incubate in the sanctuary [] obeying the laws. The keeper of the temple is to
record the name of whoever incubates when he deposits the money, his personal name and the name of his city,
and display it in the sanctuary, writing it on a board for whoever wants to look. Men and women are to sleep
separately in the dormitory, men in the part east of the altar and women in the part west [] those incubating
in the dormitory []
23. At the sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros: Rhodes and Osborne 102.98-103 (trans. Rhodes and
Osborne)
A man from Torone with leeches. He slept in the sanctuary and saw a dream. It seemed to him that the god cut
his chest with a knife, removed the leeches and put them in his hands, and stitched up his breast. When day
came he departed with the creatures in his hands and was made healthy. He had swallowed the leeches after
being tricked by his step-mother who had dropped them into a cocktail he was drinking.
24. At the sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros: Rhodes and Osborne 102.68-71 (trans. Rhodes and
Osborne)
Euphanes, a boy from Epidauros. This boy slept in the sanctuary suffering from a stone. The god appeared to
stand beside him and say What will you give me if I make you healthy? And he said Ten kuncklebones.
The god laughed and said that he would cure him. When day came he departed healthy.
25. Aristophanes makes fun of incubation
Aristophanes, Wealth 653-748.
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Further (Optional) Reading
Price, S., Delphi and divination, in Greek Religion and Society, eds. P. Easterling and J. Muir, Cambridge,
1985, pp. 128-154. (ask JLS for electronic file)
Whittaker, C. R., The Delphic Oracle: belief and behaviour in ancient Greece and Africa, Harvard
Theological Review 58 (1965), pp. 21-47. (JSTOR)
Dignas, B., A day in the life of a Greek sanctuary, in A Companion to Greek Religion, ed. D. Ogden, Malden,
Mass., 2007, pp. 163-177.