La voz de los dioses

We know ancient Greece for its philosophy, art and democratic experiences, but also for its oracles. Divination is present in Greek culture, as in the story of the Theban king Oedipus, to whom the Delphic oracle prophesied that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Inhabitants of an uncertain world, the Greeks relied on their numerous oracles to guide their lives and their time cannot be understood without these divination centers, in which the gods used the human voice to communicate with mortals. Diego Chapinal-Heras, a historian specialized in ancient Greece and its oracles, offers us a detailed and fascinating vision of the Hellenic divinatory world. What was an oracle? How was divination carried out? How important were they in Greek society? How did they evolve over time? To answer these and other questions, we will travel, hand in hand with the most up-to-date documentary, epigraphic and archaeological sources, to oracles such as those of Dodona, Delphi, Didyma or Epidaurus, and we will learn what it meant to offer and receive a prophecy. The voice of the gods is a fundamental book to understand one of the most fascinating and mysterious and least studied facets of Hellenic Antiquity.