I was alone outside the ruined Temple of Apollo, where for more than 1,000 years the Oracle of Delphi enigmatically answered the questions of curious pilgrims – including kings, generals and ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

Control of the Oracle of Delphi was a key issue in Ancient Greece, and various cities and coalitions fought over it during ...

While there were a number of temples built at Delphi, the oracle, or the Pythia, was the most important. Originally, the site seems to have been a grove of laurel trees, which were sacred to the ...

Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi ...

J. Henry Middleton, The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 9 (1888), pp. 282-322 ...

Doomed to the same fate was also the Oracle of Delphi. An earthquake in 381 AD closed the fissures around the tectonic faults, and with no gases from the ground, the Pythia was no longer able to ...