Presagios inscritos, normas archivadas: la consulta oracular griega y la gestión de sus documentos

The ancient Greeks required that important decisions be guided and endorsed by supernatural beings. The Greeks entrusted the transmission of these mandatory messages to specialized agents: oracles. This paper analyzes the nature of this institutionalized communication, describes a process governing it, and lists the records stemming from it. This paper also advocates that consultants and sanctuaries, as creators of critical information required to be publicly available, maintained a system of recordkeeping based on the selective use of media, techniques, and physical spaces.