License

This edition is offered under two distinct regimes, because it contains two distinct kinds of thing.

The ancient texts — public domain

The Greek oracle texts themselves are the work of antiquity and of nineteenth-century editors whose work has passed into the public domain (Kenyon 1893, Hercher 1863, Heinevetter 1912). We claim no rights over them. Reproduce them freely.

The edition — CC BY-SA 4.0

Everything this project adds — the structure and encoding of the canon, the apparatus, the editorial notes and status markers, the introductions, the translations, the integrity seals, and the presentation — is released under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). You may share and adapt this material, for any purpose, provided you give appropriate credit and license your derivative under the same terms.

How to attribute

Cite as: “The Adyton, a digital critical edition (College of Human and Business Efficiency Ltd), CC BY-SA 4.0,” naming the specific oracle and, where given, the underlying edition and the Greek locus. Each edition page carries a fuller “How to cite” note and a stable URL.

Integrity

Every text is served verbatim from a canon sealed by SHA-256; the hashes are published in canon/MANIFEST.json and shown on each edition page so that any reader can confirm the text has not been altered.