The oracles of the ancient Greek world are renowned for not offering easy answers to easy questions. The oracles from ancient myths, poetry and even historiography forced their inquirers to interpret enigmatic utterances and reflect on the relationship between humans and the divine sphere. The role of these oracles in Greek culture, religion, politics, literature and even cognition has been subject to increased scrutiny in the past decades. This study extends scholarship on the use of oracles into a key intersection of these areas, the surviving public speeches of Athenian politics. This thesis collects and examines the 14 oracular responses that are preserved in the surviving speeches from Athens in the fourth century BCE. Rather than see...