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A fascinating collection of tales and lore from the ancient Oracle at Delphi, this book provides both a collection of good stories and finds spiritual enlightenment weaved throughout these diverse offerings.

Booknews  
This book contains a selection of tales of the ancient Oracle at Delphi, as well as chapters on the priestess and ancient concepts of trance mediumship, the commandment to "Know thyself," and on the Chief State Oracle of Tibet. Chapters center on themes like gentleness, Socrates, war, wisdom, and wrongdoing. Lipsey is an author with no university affiliation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 
Library Journal  
Lipsey has written a curious book about one of the most important cultural phenomena of the ancient world: the oracle of Apollo at his temple in Delphi. Neither quite a history of the oracle nor quite a collection of the relevant texts, Lipsey's work is a personal and idiosyncratic retelling and interpretation of some of the texts that make extensive allusion to the oracle--some of them fictional, some mostly exemplary, few of them indicative of the nature of the oracle itself. Many of the narratives are worth reading, with the caution that they are often late in origin and self-consciously contructed; Lipsey's interpretations should be approached with care. For larger collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
 
Publisher's Weekly  
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. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.