Luck, fate and fortune : antiquity and its legacy /: antiquity and its legacy. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Esther Eidinow.
• Other Names: Eidinow, Esther, 1970-
• Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Philosophies of Fate -- Chapter II. A Ministry of Misfortune -- Chapter III. Oedipus: A Tragedy of Fates -- Chapter IV. Cultural Models and Shifting Meanings -- Chapter V. The Archaic Poets: Politics of Fortune -- Chapter VI. Herodotus: Patterns of Fate -- Chapter VII. Thucydides: Rhetorics of Coincidence -- Chapter VIII. The Resurrection of Chance -- Notes -- Index
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
• Subjects: 133.30938; Fortune -- Greece -- History; Fate and fatalism -- History; Fortune in literature; Fate and fatalism in literature; Greek literature -- History and criticism; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Divination -- Fortune Telling; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Prophecy; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Divination -- General; Fate and fatalism; Fate and fatalism in literature; Fortune; Fortune in literature; Greek literature; Greece; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857719539
• Related ISBNs: 085771953X; 9781845118426; 1845118421; 9781845118433; 184511843X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-207) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.