2014
Pythiai and Inspired Divination in the Delphic Oracle: Can Cognitive Sciences Provide Us with an Access to “Dead Minds”
CHALUPA, AlešZákladní údaje
Originální název
Pythiai and Inspired Divination in the Delphic Oracle: Can Cognitive Sciences Provide Us with an Access to “Dead Minds”
Autoři
CHALUPA, Aleš (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)
Vydání
Journal of Cognitive Historiography, London, Equinox Publishing, 2014, 2051-9672
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Stát vydavatele
Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14210/14:00074937
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
Cognition; Delphic oracle ; Pythia; spirit possession
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 11. 3. 2015 14:25, doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
The aim of this article is to deepen our knowledge of mantic procedures used at Delphi, especially with respect to the mental state of the Pythia, which was induced in the course of oracular sessions. The first section provides a short reconstruction of the Delphic oracular session based on the information gleaned from historical and (to lesser extent) archaeological sources. The second section aims for clarification of some contentious points, which are still the subject of intensive scholarly debates and controversies. They concern particularly questions about the authorship of pronounced oracles and the method by which the Pythia brought about her reputed mantic abilities. The third section raises a question about how and to what degree our knowledge about the history of the Delphic oracle and the Pythias behaviour in the course of oracular consultations is deepened by looking at it from the perspective of cognitive psychology. A cognitive perspective can, perhaps, give us useful material for possible comparisons based on analogically similar cases of spirit possession currently studied anthropologically, psychologically, and neurologically.
Návaznosti
MUNI/A/0780/2013, interní kód MU |
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