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The Oracle at Delphi The ancient Greeks believed that they could consult the famous oracle at Delphi about their fate.†
Chpt 6 *
The Oracle at Delphi The ancient Greeks believed that they could consult the famous oracle at Delphi about their fate.†
Chpt 6
Apollo, the god of the oracle, spoke through his priestess Pythia, who sat on a stool over a fissure in the earth, from which arose hypnotic vapors that put Pythia in a trance.†
Chpt 6
Apollo, the god of the oracle, spoke through his priestess Pythia, who sat on a stool over a fissure in the earth, from which arose hypnotic vapors that put Pythia in a trance.†
Chpt 6
When people came to Delphi they had to present their question to the priests of the oracle, who passed it on to Pythia.†
Chpt 6
There were many heads of state who dared not go to war or take other decisive steps until they had consulted the oracle at Delphi.†
Chpt 6
An Athenian is said to have asked the oracle at Delphi who the wisest man in Athens was.†
Chpt 7
She wrote that we know the moon is not made of green cheese and that there are also craters on the dark side of the moon, that both Socrates and Jesus were sentenced to death, that everybody has to die sooner or later, that the great temples on the Acropolis were built after the Persian wars in the fifth century B.C. and that the most important oracle in ancient Greece was the oracle at Delphi.†
Chpt 12

Definitions:

(1) (oracle of Delphi)
famous giver of cryptic prophesies in ancient Greece, at the Temple of Apollo
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)