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grbs-15959	Yu, Kenneth W.	The Divination Contest of Calchas and Mopsus and Aristophanes’ Knights	2017	25	.pdf	application/pdf	8824	367	58	Cf. H. Bowden, “Oracles for Sale,” in P. Derow and R. Parker (eds.), Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (Oxford 2003) 256–274, on the popularity of oracles in the late Classical. Oracles and politics: some historical considerations Before comparing Knights to the Contest of Calchas and Mopsus, I review the historical circumstances of the comedy and Aristophanes’ strategy of appealing to the motif of oracles to link Cleon to dubious Athenian political figures.	cache/grbs-15959.pdf	txt/grbs-15959.txt