Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Cave Experiences and the Human Mind
2: Oracles and Caves
3: Seers and Poets
4: Sages and Philosophers
5: Near-Death Experiences: Real and Make-Believe
Conclusions
Retrospect

About the Author

Yulia Ustinova is Senior Lecturer, Department of General History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Reviews

What this book offers is an explanation for that association through the very plausible claim that the cave experiences of the Greeks were culturally patterned responses to biologically determined processes in the human brain.
*Penelope Murray, University of Warwick*

a valuable and thought-provoking book
*Time and Mind*

Ustinova's systematic discussion of evidence on underground revelations in ancient Greek culture remains highly valuable
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

Yulia Ustinova weaves together neuropsychological, archaeological and literary evidence to scrutinize the unsetlling and altering gifts of caves as understood by what she refers to as the "Ancient Greek Mind".
*Times Literary Supplement*