See Delphi and Die is a 2005 historical mystery crime novel by English author Lindsey Davis, the 17th book of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series...
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Lindsey Davis (redirect from See delphi and die)
Jupiter Myth (2002) The Accusers (2003) Scandal Takes a Holiday (2004) See Delphi and Die (2005) Saturnalia (2007) Alexandria (2009) Nemesis (2010) Omnibus...
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Robert Gwisdek (redirect from Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi)
album, Die Zähmung der Hydra, as Shaban & Käptn Peng, with his brother Johannes Gwisdek (Shaban). As part of Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi, he released...
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Delphi (/ˈdɛlfaɪ, ˈdɛlfi/; Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi]), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the...
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Pythia (redirect from Oracle of Delphi)
priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was also historically...
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2005 in literature (section Children and young people)
Cunningham – Specimen Days Rana Dasgupta – Tokyo Cancelled Lindsey Davis – See Delphi and Die Abha Dawesar – Babyji L. Sprague de Camp – Years in the Making: the...
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Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi. Many are...
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Plutarch (section Studies and life)
essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans...
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Apollo (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Apulu. As the patron deity of Delphi (Apollo Pythios), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle and also the deity of ritual purification...
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Oedipus (category Articles having same image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
their own. Oedipus learned from the oracle at Delphi of the prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother but, unaware of his true...
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Moirai (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
197) there is a reference to the Klôthes, or Spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth and Death were revered. In Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier...
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saw Albus and Scorpius with Delphi, Harry and Draco confront Amos and discover Delphi had bewitched him into thinking she was his niece. Delphi takes the...
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Saturnalia (Davis novel) (section Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science)
for dies a horrific death while the security of the Empire is compromised by the usual mixture of top brass incompetence, bureaucratic in-fighting and popular...
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Argos, whose stories date back to about 580 BCE. Two statues, discovered in Delphi, represent them. The first known version of the story was described by Herodotus...
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Scandal Takes a Holiday (section Family and associates)
Holconius and Mutatus, but they are out. Nevertheless, a slave in the columnists' office tells Falco the reason Deiocles went back to Ostia – to see his aunt...
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Croesus (section Votive offerings to Delphi)
Croesus was renowned for his wealth; Herodotus and Pausanias noted that his gifts were preserved at Delphi. The fall of Croesus had a profound effect on...
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Gaia (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
same epithet appears in her cults at Delphi and Aegae in Achaea. In the Homeric hymn her conception is more clear and detailed. She is the Mother of the...
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Coining (mint) (redirect from Coin die)
producers (in this case the Amphictions at Delphi) could get as many as 47,000 strikes out of an individual die. Medieval engravers were guild members who...
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Kopitz and Rainer Cadenbach, Munich 2009, Vol. 1, pp. 3–5 RUSSELL, Peter; Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated). Hastings, UK: Delphi Classics...
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Nerium (redirect from Nerium oleander and its toxins)
Bittersweet Story: The True Nature of the Laurel of the Oracle of Delphi". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. pp. 351–60. Theophrastus. Inquiry into Plants....
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Ludovisi Gaul (redirect from Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife)
should not be forgotten and that the women and children of Kallion near Delphi which they murdered should be remembered and honored. When discovered...
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Themis (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
She is associated with oracles and prophecies, including the Oracle of Delphi. Themis means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that...
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had escaped by sea. Brennus pushed on to Delphi, where he was defeated and forced to retreat, after which he died of wounds sustained in the battle. His...
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Sibyl (section In Renaissance art and literature)
oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has been dated to as early as the eleventh century BC by Pausanias when...
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Hestia (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
house; the early temples at Dreros and Prinias on Crete are of this type as indeed is the temple of Apollo at Delphi which always had its inner hestia"...
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Aesop (category Ancient Greek slaves and freedmen)
journey to Delphi, where he angers the citizens by telling insulting fables, is sentenced to death and, after cursing the people of Delphi, is forced...
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group of nymphs. Sisyphus and his brother Salmoneus were known to hate each other, and Sisyphus consulted the Oracle of Delphi on just how to kill Salmoneus...
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Siphnian Treasury (category Ancient Greek buildings and structures in Delphi)
The Siphnian Treasury was a building at the Ancient Greek cult centre of Delphi, erected to host the offerings of the polis, or city-state, of Siphnos....
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Spartoi. Laius received an oracle from Delphi which told him that he must not have a child, or the child would kill him and marry his wife; in another version...
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the RAND Corporation and played an important role in the development of the Delphi method used for predicting future trends, and other early forms of...
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