cover image Have You Been to Delphi: Tales of the Ancient Oracle for Modern Minds

Have You Been to Delphi: Tales of the Ancient Oracle for Modern Minds

Roger Lipsey. State University of New York Press, $25.95 (308pp) ISBN 978-0-7914-4782-6

Regarded by modern scholars as an important aspect of ancient Greek and Roman life is the Oracle of the Delphi and its many stories--both real and fictional. In Have You Been to Delphi?: Tales of the Ancient Oracle for Modern Minds, Roger Lipsey (An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in 20th-Century Art; etc.) retells and reinterprets tales from ancient literature, such as those of Plutarch, Cicero, Socrates and Aeschylus, and examines their philosophical influence and importance to scholars today. Lipsey also includes, as an afterword, an intriguing conversation with Lobsang Lhalungpa, a Tibetan lama and scholar who lives in the U.S., on the parallels between the Delphic Oracle and the Chief State Oracle of Tibet.