Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy by Esther Eidinow

Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Esther Eidinow

224 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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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 of Delphi. How the world of antiquity, and particularly the ancien...

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