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    Pythia (redirect from Oracle of Delphi)
    the title of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title...
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    name. Delphi shares the same root with the Greek word for womb, δελφύς delphys. Pytho (Πυθώ) is related to Pythia, the priestess serving as the oracle, and...
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    important oracles of Greek antiquity were Pythia (priestess to Apollo at Delphi), and the oracle of Dione and Zeus at Dodona in Epirus. Other oracles of Apollo...
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    the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at...
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  • consensus. The name Delphi derives from the Oracle of Delphi, although the authors of the method were unhappy with the oracular connotation of the name, "smacking...
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    The Oracle of Delphi (French: L'Oracle de Delphes) is a 1903 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film...
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    orders of Theodosius I in 390 C.E.. During antiquity, the temple was home to the famous Greek prophetess the Pythia, or the Oracle of Delphi, making...
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    far south as the Gulf of Corinth. The name Delphi came from the Oracle of Delphi, which was anciently accepted as a purveyor of truth revealed by the...
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    Nerium (category Flora of North Africa)
    the female priestess of Apollo, also known as the Oracle of Delphi in Ancient Greece. According to this theory, the symptoms of the Pythia's trances (enthusiasmos)...
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    Themis (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    the second wife of Zeus. She is associated with oracles and prophecies, including the Oracle of Delphi. Themis means "divine law" rather than human ordinance...
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    Sibyl (redirect from Sybil (oracle))
    The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has been dated to as early as the eleventh...
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    collapsed during the earthquake of 226 BC, although parts of it were preserved. In accordance with the Oracle of Delphi, the Rhodians did not rebuild it...
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    Dodona (redirect from Zeus's oracle)
    considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige. Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where...
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    the Oracle of Delphi, in which the oracle stated something to the effect of "Socrates is the wisest person in Athens." Socrates, believing the oracle but...
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    Heracles went to the Oracle of Delphi to atone, where he prayed to the god Apollo for guidance. Heracles was told to serve Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, for ten...
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  • the support of the Spartan people to wage war on Argos. The Argive forces also sought the advice of the Oracle of Delphi. However, the Oracle foretold the...
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  • after hearing a prophecy from an Oracle of Delphi at Camp Half-Blood. Percy, Grover, and Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena, start on a journey to the...
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    Phoebe (Titaness) (category Ancient Delphi)
    the site of the Oracle of Delphi before gifting it to her grandson Apollo. Her name, meaning "bright", was also given to a number of lunar goddesses like...
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    have been referring to Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi. The Greek military leader and historian Xenophon wrote an account of a 401 BCE incident involving mad...
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    and a passionate devotee of classical Greek Antiquity, and also a patron of the Oracle of Delphi, gave orders that statues of the beautiful young man,...
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    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 parentage...
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  • being a corrupter of youth began at the time of his obedience to the Oracle at Delphi, and tells how Chaerephon went to the Oracle, to ask her, the Pythian...
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  • Nile" and "The Oracle at Delphi" all appeared in the April 1933 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (issue number 562) under the sub-heading of Have You Got...
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  • (Djuna) Nostradamus Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi Slava Sevryukova Vlaycho Zhechev Raymond Detrez (2014). Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria (3rd ed.). Rowman...
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    Midas (redirect from Touch of Midas)
    Gordian Knot. Herodotus said that a "Midas son of Gordias" made an offering to the Oracle of Delphi of a royal throne "from which he made judgments" that...
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  • John R. Hale (archaeologist) (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    "The Oracle of Delphi—Was She Really Stoned?". Biblical Archaeology Society. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2019-08-21. Donald Munro, The Fresno Bee. "In Delphi, a...
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  • are five of them. Four Oracles are associated with Apollo. Oracle of Delphi – Apollo's Oracle of Delphi resides in the mummified remains of its host,...
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    advice of the Oracle of Delphi, Hyllus's great-grandson, Temenos, led his relatives in a successful invasion, fifty years later, with the help of the Dorians...
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    Croesus (redirect from Croesus of Lydia)
    statements from Delphi. Likely legendary were also the responses of the oracles of Delphi and Amphiaraus telling Croesus to ally with the strongest of all Greeks...
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  • under Delphi in Greece. They overhear Delphi's guard, Python, talking to "the Beast" about how to control all the oracles and destroy the Grove of Dodona...
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