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    temple of Apollo Delphinios dates from the 7th century BC, or probably from the middle of the 8th century BC. According to the legend, Apollo appeared...
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    precincts of the Temple of Apollo Delphinios; they are now at the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion. They probably depict Apollo and Artemis and their mother...
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  • offered on one and the same occasion to Pythian Apollo (Apollo Pythios) and Delphic Apollo (Apollo Delphinios). A localizing epithet refers simply to a particular...
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    BCE, a religious sanctuary. In the early 5th century, a temple to Apollo Delphinios was also built on the site. The Greek colony was highly important...
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  • Delphinion (category Temples of Apollo)
    ancient Greece, was a temple of Apollo Delphinios ("Apollo of Delphi") also known as "Delphic Apollo" or "Pythian Apollo", the principal god of Delphi,...
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    festival at Olympia. Delia, the feminine form of Apollo Delios Delphinia, the feminine form of Apollo Delphinios (literally derived from Delphi). Dereatis,...
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    Hellenistic cistern next to the east wall of the Delphinion (temple of Apollo Delphinios) in Dreros, at a depth between three and four metres. The texts are...
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    These stones apparently came from the east wall of the temple of Apollo Delphinios, and make up eight inscriptions or fragments of inscriptions. This...
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  • Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo, in the shape of a dolphin (delphis), propelled...
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    evidence, however, comes from Crete, where, e.g. in the Temple of Apollo Delphinios at Dreros three votive statuettes have been found in an excellent...
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    Pythia (redirect from Oracle of Apollo)
    But Apollo, who had Delphinios as one of his cult epithets, leapt into the ship in the form of a dolphin (delphys, gen. delphinos). Dolphin-Apollo revealed...
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    site would be named Delphi to commemorate this event and Apollo would bear the epithet Delphinios. Probus on Virgil's Georgics, 2. 197 "Boy On A Dolphin...
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  • Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 118. Herda, Alexander (2008). "Apollon Delphinios – Apollon Didymeus: Zwei Gesichter eines milesischen Gottes und ihr Bezug...
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    Delphi (category Temples of Apollo)
    prehistoric beliefs associated with the site. Apollo is connected with the site by his epithet Δελφίνιος Delphinios, "the Delphinian". The epithet is connected...
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  • different entity, such as the seventh day of each month being dedicated to Apollo. The month in which the year began, as well as the names of the months,...
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  • Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape...
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  • Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 118. Herda, Alexander (2008). "Apollon Delphinios – Apollon Didymeus: Zwei Gesichter eines milesischen Gottes und ihr Bezug...
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