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'find'">f</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span></span>/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Δελφοί</span></span></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="el-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[ðelˈfi]</a></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in legend previously called <b>Pytho</b> (Πυθώ), was an ancient <a href="/wiki/Sacred_precinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred precinct">sacred precinct</a> and the seat of <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a>, the major <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">oracle</a> who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical world</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greeks</a> considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the <a href="/wiki/Omphalos_of_Delphi" title="Omphalos of Delphi">Omphalos of Delphi</a> (navel). </p><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Delphi</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="nickname"><span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el" style="font-style: normal;">Δελφοί</span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi,_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Delphic Tholos" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Delphi%2C_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg/290px-Delphi%2C_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Delphi%2C_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg/435px-Delphi%2C_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Delphi%2C_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg/580px-Delphi%2C_Greece_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3712" data-file-height="2088"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The Athena temple complex, including the <a href="/wiki/Tholos_of_Delphi" title="Tholos of Delphi">Delphic Tholos</a>. 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Partida (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2507">"Delphi"</a>. <i>Odysseus</i>. Ministry of Culture and Sports, Hellenic Republic.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Odysseus&rft.atitle=Delphi&rft.date=2012&rft.au=E.+Partida&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fodysseus.culture.gr%2Fh%2F3%2Feh351.jsp%3Fobj_id%3D2507&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #0177D3; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Archaeological Site of Delphi</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Cultural</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criteria</th><td class="infobox-data">i, ii, iii, iv and vi</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">1987 <small>(12th <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Committee" title="World Heritage Committee">session</a>)</small></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/393">393</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Europe">Europe</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg/390px-Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="390" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg/585px-Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg/780px-Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="993" data-file-height="793"></a><figcaption>Delphi among the main Greek sanctuaries</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Suda" title="Suda">Suda</a>, Delphi took its name from the <a href="/wiki/Delphyne" title="Delphyne">Delphyne</a>, the she-serpent (<i><a href="/wiki/Drakaina_(mythology)" title="Drakaina (mythology)">drakaina</a></i>) who lived there and was killed by the god <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> (in other accounts the serpent was the male serpent (<i>drakon</i>) <a href="/wiki/Python_(mythology)" title="Python (mythology)">Python</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The sacred precinct occupies a delineated region on the south-western slope of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Parnassus" title="Mount Parnassus">Mount Parnassus</a>. </p><p>It is now an extensive archaeological site, and since 1938 a part of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Parnassus" title="Mount Parnassus">Parnassos National Park</a>. The precinct is recognized by <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> as a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> in having had a great influence in the ancient world, as evidenced by the various monuments built there by most of the important ancient Greek city-states, demonstrating their fundamental <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenic civilisation">Hellenic</a> unity.<sup id="cite_ref-unesco_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adjacent to the sacred precinct is <a href="/wiki/Delphi_(modern_town)" title="Delphi (modern town)">a small modern town of the same name</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Names"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Names</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Delphi_and_the_Delphic_region"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Delphi and the Delphic region</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Archaeology_of_the_precinct"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Archaeology of the precinct</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Delphi_Archaeological_Museum"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Delphi Archaeological Museum</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Architecture_of_the_precinct"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Architecture of the precinct</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Temple_of_Apollo"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Temple of Apollo</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Treasuries"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Treasuries</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Altar_of_the_Chians"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Altar of the Chians</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Stoa_of_the_Athenians"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">Stoa of the Athenians</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Theatre"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</span> <span class="toctext">Theatre</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Tholos"><span class="tocnumber">4.6</span> <span class="toctext">Tholos</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Gymnasium"><span class="tocnumber">4.7</span> <span class="toctext">Gymnasium</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Stadium"><span class="tocnumber">4.8</span> <span class="toctext">Stadium</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Hippodrome"><span class="tocnumber">4.9</span> <span class="toctext">Hippodrome</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Polygonal_wall"><span class="tocnumber">4.10</span> <span class="toctext">Polygonal wall</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Castalian_spring"><span class="tocnumber">4.11</span> <span class="toctext">Castalian spring</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Roman_Agora"><span class="tocnumber">4.12</span> <span class="toctext">Roman Agora</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Athletic_statues"><span class="tocnumber">4.13</span> <span class="toctext">Athletic statues</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Myths_regarding_the_origin_of_the_precinct"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Myths regarding the origin of the precinct</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#Oracle_of_Delphi"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Oracle of Delphi</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#The_prophetic_process"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">The prophetic process</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Influence,_devastations_and_a_temporary_revival"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Influence, devastations and a temporary revival</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Religious_significance_of_the_oracle"><span class="tocnumber">6.3</span> <span class="toctext">Religious significance of the oracle</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Ancient_Delphi"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ancient Delphi</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Amphictyonic_Council"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">Amphictyonic Council</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#The_sacred_precinct_in_the_Iron_Age"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">The sacred precinct in the Iron Age</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#Abandonment_and_rediscovery"><span class="tocnumber">7.4</span> <span class="toctext">Abandonment and rediscovery</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#Delphi_in_later_art"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Delphi in later art</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30"><a href="#Delphi_in_later_literature"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Delphi in later literature</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31"><a href="#Gallery"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Gallery</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-32"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-33"><a href="#Footnotes"><span class="tocnumber">12</span> <span class="toctext">Footnotes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-34"><a href="#Citations"><span class="tocnumber">13</span> <span class="toctext">Citations</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-35"><a href="#Citation_references"><span class="tocnumber">14</span> <span class="toctext">Citation references</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">15</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#5th-century_evidence"><span class="tocnumber">15.1</span> <span class="toctext">5th-century evidence</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">16</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Names">Names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Names" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p><b>Delphi</b> shares the same root with the Greek word for womb, δελφύς <i>delphys</i>. </p><p><b>Pytho</b> (Πυθώ) is related to Pythia, the priestess serving as the oracle, and to <a href="/wiki/Python_(mythology)" title="Python (mythology)">Python</a>, a serpent or dragon who lived at the site.<sup id="cite_ref-IK_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IK-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Python" is derived from the verb πύθω (<i>pythō</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-rot_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rot-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "to <a href="/wiki/Decomposition" title="Decomposition">rot</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200495_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200495-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Delphi_and_the_Delphic_region">Delphi and the Delphic region</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Delphi and the Delphic region" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>Today Delphi is a municipality of Greece as well as a <a href="/wiki/Delphi_(modern_town)" title="Delphi (modern town)">modern town</a> adjacent to the ancient precinct. The modern town was created after removing buildings from the sacred precinct so that the latter could be excavated. The two Delphis, old and new, are located on <a href="/wiki/Greek_National_Road_48" title="Greek National Road 48">Greek National Road 48</a> between <a href="/wiki/Amfissa" title="Amfissa">Amfissa</a> in the west and <a href="/wiki/Livadeia" title="Livadeia">Livadeia</a>, capital of <a href="/wiki/Boeotia" title="Boeotia">Voiotia</a>, in the east. The road follows the northern slope of a pass between <a href="/wiki/Mount_Parnassus" title="Mount Parnassus">Mount Parnassus</a> on the north and the mountains of the <a href="/wiki/Desfina" title="Desfina">Desfina</a> Peninsula on the south. The pass is of the river <a href="/wiki/Pleistos" title="Pleistos">Pleistos</a>, running from east to west, forming a natural boundary across the north of the Desfina Peninsula, and providing an easy route across it. </p><p>On the west side the valley joins the north–south valley between <a href="/wiki/Amfissa" title="Amfissa">Amfissa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Itea,_Phocis" title="Itea, Phocis">Itea</a>. </p><p>On the north side of the valley junction a spur of Parnassus looming over the valley made narrower by it is the site of ancient <a href="/wiki/Crissa" title="Crissa">Krisa</a>, which once was the ruling power of the entire valley system. Both Amphissa and Krissa are mentioned in the <i>Iliad's</i> <a href="/wiki/Catalogue_of_Ships" title="Catalogue of Ships">Catalogue of Ships</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was a <a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" title="Mycenaean Greece">Mycenaean</a> stronghold. Archaeological dates of the valley go back to the <a href="/wiki/Helladic_chronology" title="Helladic chronology">Early Helladic</a>. Krisa itself is Middle Helladic.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These early dates are comparable to the earliest dates at Delphi, suggesting Delphi was appropriated and transformed by Phocians from ancient Krisa. It is believed that the ruins of <a href="/wiki/Kirra,_Phocis" title="Kirra, Phocis">Kirra</a>, now part of the port of <a href="/wiki/Itea,_Phocis" title="Itea, Phocis">Itea</a>, were the port of <a href="/wiki/Cirrha" title="Cirrha">Krisa</a> of the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Archaeology_of_the_precinct">Archaeology of the precinct</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Archaeology of the precinct" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Excavations_at_Delphi" title="Excavations at Delphi">Excavations at Delphi</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fouilles_de_Delphes_(1902)_(14792888433).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg/220px-Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3585" data-file-height="2646"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 162px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg/220px-Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="162" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg/330px-Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg/440px-Fouilles_de_Delphes_%281902%29_%2814792888433%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The polygonal wall, 1902</figcaption></figure> <p>The site was first briefly excavated in 1880 by <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Haussoullier" title="Bernard Haussoullier">Bernard Haussoullier</a> (1852–1926) on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/French_School_at_Athens" title="French School at Athens">French School at Athens</a>, of which he was a sometime member. The site was then occupied by the village of <a href="/wiki/Kastri,_Phocis" title="Kastri, Phocis">Kastri</a>, about 100 houses, 200 people. Kastri ("fort") had been there since the destruction of the place by Theodosius I in 390. He probably left a fort to make sure it was not repopulated, however, the fort became the new village. They were mining the stone for re-use in their own buildings. British and French travelers visiting the site suspected it was ancient Delphi. Before a systematic excavation of the site could be undertaken, the village had to be relocated, but the residents resisted. </p><p>The opportunity to relocate the village occurred when it was substantially damaged by an earthquake, with villagers offered a completely new village in exchange for the old site. In 1893, the <a href="/wiki/French_School_at_Athens" title="French School at Athens">French Archaeological School</a> removed vast quantities of soil from numerous landslides to reveal both the major buildings and structures of the sanctuary of Apollo and of the temple to Athena, the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Athena_Pronaia" title="Temple of Athena Pronaia">Athena Pronoia</a> along with thousands of objects, inscriptions, and sculptures.<sup id="cite_ref-ministry_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ministry-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Great Excavation architectural members from a fifth-century Christian <a href="/wiki/Basilica" title="Basilica">basilica</a>, were discovered that date to when Delphi was a bishopric. Other important Late Roman buildings are the Eastern Baths, the house with the peristyle, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Agora_(Delphi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Agora (Delphi)">Roman Agora</a>, and the large cistern. At the outskirts of the city late Roman cemeteries were located. </p><p>To the southeast of the precinct of Apollo lay the so-called Southeastern Mansion, a building with a 65-meter-long façade, spread over four levels, with four triclinia and private baths. Large storage jars kept the provisions, whereas other pottery vessels and luxury items were discovered in the rooms. Among the finds stands out a tiny leopard made of mother of pearl, possibly of Sassanian origin, on display in the ground floor gallery of the <a href="/wiki/Delphi_Archaeological_Museum" title="Delphi Archaeological Museum">Delphi Archaeological Museum</a>. The mansion dates to the beginning of the fifth century and functioned as a private house until 580, later however it was transformed into a potter workshop.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is only then, in the beginning of the sixth century, that the city seems to decline: its size is reduced and its trade contacts seem to be drastically diminished. Local pottery production is produced in large quantities:<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is coarser and made of reddish clay, aiming at satisfying the needs of the inhabitants. </p><p>The Sacred Way remained the main street of the settlement, transformed, however, into a street with commercial and industrial use. Around the agora were built workshops as well as the only intra muros early Christian basilica. The domestic area spread mainly in the western part of the settlement. The houses were rather spacious and two large cisterns provided running water to them.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg/220px-Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="791" data-file-height="589"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 164px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg/220px-Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="164" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg/330px-Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg/440px-Museuarqueologicodelfos.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Archaeological Museum of Delphi, designed by <a href="/wiki/Alexandros_Tombazis" title="Alexandros Tombazis">Alexandros Tombazis</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delphi_Archaeological_Museum">Delphi Archaeological Museum</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Delphi Archaeological Museum" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Delphi_Archaeological_Museum" title="Delphi Archaeological Museum">Delphi Archaeological Museum</a></div> <p>The museum houses artifacts associated with ancient Delphi, including the earliest known <a href="/wiki/Delphic_Hymns" title="Delphic Hymns">notation of a melody</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Charioteer_of_Delphi" title="Charioteer of Delphi">Charioteer of Delphi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kleobis_and_Biton" title="Kleobis and Biton">Kleobis and Biton</a>, golden treasures discovered beneath the Sacred Way, the <a href="/wiki/Sphinx_of_Naxos" title="Sphinx of Naxos">Sphinx of Naxos</a>, and fragments of reliefs from the <a href="/wiki/Siphnian_Treasury" title="Siphnian Treasury">Siphnian Treasury</a>. Immediately adjacent to the exit is the inscription that mentions the Roman proconsul <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Iunius_Gallio_Annaeanus" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucius Iunius Gallio Annaeanus">Gallio</a>. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Architecture_of_the_precinct">Architecture of the precinct</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Architecture of the precinct" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg/440px-Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="346" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1109" data-file-height="873"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 440px;height: 346px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg/440px-Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg.png" data-width="440" data-height="346" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg/660px-Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg/880px-Plan_Delphi_Sanctuary_of_Apollo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Site plan of the upper Sacred Precinct, Delphi. The outer wall that surrounds it is 190 metres (620 ft) long by 135 metres (443 ft) wide and is pierced by nine gates.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Most of the ruins that survive today date from the most intense period of activity at the site in the sixth century BC.<sup id="cite_ref-a_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-a-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Temple_of_Apollo">Temple of Apollo</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Temple of Apollo" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)" title="Temple of Apollo (Delphi)">Temple of Apollo (Delphi)</a></div> <p>Ancient tradition refers to a succession of mythical temples on the site: first one built of olive branches from <a href="/wiki/Vale_of_Tempe" title="Vale of Tempe">Tempe</a>, then one built of beeswax and wings by bees, and thirdly one built by <a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>. The first archaeologically attested structure was built in the seventh century BC and is attributed in legend to the architects <a href="/wiki/Trophonius" title="Trophonius">Trophonios</a> and <a href="/wiki/Agamedes" title="Agamedes">Agamedes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It burnt down in 548/7 BC and the <a href="/wiki/Alcmaeonidae" title="Alcmaeonidae">Alcmaeonids</a> built a new structure which itself burnt down in the fourth century BC. </p><p>The ruins of the Temple of Apollo that are visible today date from the fourth century BC, and are of a <a href="/wiki/Peripteral" class="mw-redirect" title="Peripteral">peripteral</a> <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a> building. It was erected by <a href="/wiki/Spintharus_of_Corinth" title="Spintharus of Corinth">Spintharus</a>, Xenodoros, and Agathon.<sup id="cite_ref-Sakoulas_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sakoulas-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi_-_panoramio_(3).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Delphi_-_panoramio_%283%29.jpg/240px-Delphi_-_panoramio_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2576" data-file-height="1932"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Delphi_-_panoramio_%283%29.jpg/240px-Delphi_-_panoramio_%283%29.jpg" 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data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Treasury_house_of_Athens_in_Delphi_%28July_2018%29.jpg/330px-Treasury_house_of_Athens_in_Delphi_%28July_2018%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Treasury_house_of_Athens_in_Delphi_%28July_2018%29.jpg/440px-Treasury_house_of_Athens_in_Delphi_%28July_2018%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The reconstructed Treasury of the Athenians, built to commemorate their victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon" title="Battle of Marathon">Battle of Marathon</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Athenian_Treasury" title="Athenian Treasury">Athenian Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boeotian_Treasury" title="Boeotian Treasury">Boeotian Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cnidian_Treasury" title="Cnidian Treasury">Cnidian Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicyonian_Treasury" title="Sicyonian Treasury">Sicyonian Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siphnian_Treasury" title="Siphnian Treasury">Siphnian Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theban_Treasury_(Delphi)" title="Theban Treasury (Delphi)">Theban Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treasury_of_the_Acanthians" title="Treasury of the Acanthians">Treasury of the Acanthians</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Treasury_of_the_Massaliots_(Delphi)" title="Treasury of the Massaliots (Delphi)">Treasury of the Massaliots (Delphi)</a></div> <p>From the entrance of the upper site, continuing up the slope on the Sacred Way almost to the Temple of Apollo, are a large number of <a href="/wiki/Votive_deposit" class="mw-redirect" title="Votive deposit">votive</a> statues, and numerous so-called treasuries. These were built by many of the Greek city-states to commemorate victories and to thank the oracle for her advice, which was thought to have contributed to those victories. These buildings held the offerings made to Apollo; these were frequently a "<a href="/wiki/Tithe" title="Tithe">tithe</a>" or tenth of the spoils of a battle. The most impressive is the now-restored <a href="/wiki/Athenian_Treasury" title="Athenian Treasury">Athenian Treasury</a>, built to commemorate their victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon" title="Battle of Marathon">Battle of Marathon</a> in 490 BC. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Siphnian_Treasury" title="Siphnian Treasury">Siphnian Treasury</a> was dedicated by the city of <a href="/wiki/Siphnos" class="mw-redirect" title="Siphnos">Siphnos</a>, whose citizens gave a tithe of the yield from their silver mines until the mines came to an abrupt end when the sea flooded the workings. </p><p>One of the largest of the treasuries was that of <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a>. Having built it in the late classical period, the Argives took great pride in establishing their place at Delphi amongst the other city-states. Completed in 380 BC, their treasury seems to draw inspiration mostly from the Temple of Hera located in the Argolis. However, recent analysis of the Archaic elements of the treasury suggest that its founding preceded this. </p><p>Other identifiable treasuries are those of the <a href="/wiki/Sicyonian_Treasury" title="Sicyonian Treasury">Sicyonians</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Boeotian_Treasury" title="Boeotian Treasury">Boeotians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treasury_of_the_Massaliots_(Delphi)" title="Treasury of the Massaliots (Delphi)">Massaliots</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Theban_Treasury_(Delphi)" title="Theban Treasury (Delphi)">Thebans</a>. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Treasury_of_the_Boeotians.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Boeotians"><noscript><img alt="Boeotians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Treasury_of_the_Boeotians.jpg/270px-Treasury_of_the_Boeotians.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" 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data-alt="Sicyonians" data-width="180" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Treasury_of_the_Sicyonians_on_the_Sacred_Way_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/405px-The_Treasury_of_the_Sicyonians_on_the_Sacred_Way_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Treasury_of_the_Sicyonians_on_the_Sacred_Way_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/540px-The_Treasury_of_the_Sicyonians_on_the_Sacred_Way_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sicyonians</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_(Delphi)_on_October_4,_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Siphnians"><noscript><img alt="Siphnians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/270px-Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/270px-Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg" data-alt="Siphnians" data-width="180" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/405px-Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/540px-Sideview_of_the_Siphnian_Treasury_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Siphnians</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Altar_of_the_Chians">Altar of the Chians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Altar of the Chians" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Altar_of_the_Chians" title="Altar of the Chians">Altar of the Chians</a></div> <p>Located in front of the Temple of Apollo, the main altar of the sanctuary was paid for and built by the people of <a href="/wiki/Chios" title="Chios">Chios</a>. It is dated to the fifth century BC by the inscription on its <a href="/wiki/Cornice" title="Cornice">cornice</a>. Made entirely of black marble, except for the base and cornice, the altar would have made a striking impression. It was restored in 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-ministry_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ministry-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Replica_of_Serpent_Column_in_Delphi_and_Altar_of_Apollo,_20M8126.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Replica_of_Serpent_Column_in_Delphi_and_Altar_of_Apollo%2C_20M8126.jpg/240px-Replica_of_Serpent_Column_in_Delphi_and_Altar_of_Apollo%2C_20M8126.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 120px;" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg/270px-GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg/270px-GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg/405px-GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg/540px-GRIEKENLAND_023_%2817669660608%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title='Ancient Greek inscription at the altar, naming Chios, "ΧΙΟΙΣ"'><noscript><img alt='Ancient Greek inscription at the altar, naming Chios, "ΧΙΟΙΣ"' src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG/240px-Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG/240px-Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG" data-alt='Ancient Greek inscription at the altar, naming Chios, "ΧΙΟΙΣ"' data-width="160" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG/360px-Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG/480px-Inscription_delphi_apollo.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ancient Greek inscription at the altar, naming Chios, "ΧΙΟΙΣ"</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stoa_of_the_Athenians">Stoa of the Athenians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Stoa of the Athenians" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Stoa_of_the_Athenians" title="Stoa of the Athenians">Stoa of the Athenians</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg/220px-Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg/220px-Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg/330px-Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg/440px-Stoa_of_the_Athenians_at_Delphi_by_Joy_of_Museums.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>View of the Athenian Treasury; the Stoa of the Athenians on the right</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Stoa" title="Stoa">stoa</a>, or open-sided, covered porch, is placed in an approximately east–west alignment along the base of the polygonal wall retaining the terrace on which the Temple of Apollo sits. There is no archaeological suggestion of a connection to the temple. The stoa opened to the Sacred Way. The nearby presence of the Treasury of the Athenians suggests that this quarter of Delphi was used for Athenian business or politics, as stoas are generally found in market-places. </p><p>Although the architecture at Delphi is generally Doric, a plain style, in keeping with the Phocian traditions that were Doric, the Athenians did not prefer the Doric. The stoa was built in their own preferred style, the <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic order</a>, the capitals of the columns being a sure indicator. In the Ionic order they are floral and ornate, although not so much as the Corinthian, which is in deficit there. The remaining porch structure contains seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces of stone (most columns were constructed from a series of discs joined). The inscription on the <a href="/wiki/Stylobate" title="Stylobate">stylobate</a> indicates that it was built by the Athenians after their naval victory over the Persians in 478 BC, to house their war trophies. At that time the Athenians and the Spartans were on the same side. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 92px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 90px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Delphi-2.jpg/135px-Delphi-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 90px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Delphi-2.jpg/135px-Delphi-2.jpg" data-width="90" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Delphi-2.jpg/202px-Delphi-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Delphi-2.jpg/270px-Delphi-2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 92px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 90px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Greece-0842_(2216558634).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg/135px-Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 90px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg/135px-Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg" data-width="90" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg/202px-Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg/270px-Greece-0842_%282216558634%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi,_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg/240px-Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3116" data-file-height="2337"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg/240px-Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg" data-width="160" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg/360px-Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg/480px-Delphi%2C_Stoa_der_Athener_2015-09_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <p><br> The <a href="/wiki/Sibyl_rock" title="Sibyl rock">Sibyl rock</a> is a pulpit-like outcrop of rock between the Athenian Treasury and the <a href="/wiki/Stoa_of_the_Athenians" title="Stoa of the Athenians">Stoa of the Athenians</a> upon the Sacred Way that leads up to the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)" title="Temple of Apollo (Delphi)">temple of Apollo</a> in the archaeological area of Delphi. The rock is claimed to be the location from which a prehistoric Sibyl pre-dating the Pythia of Apollo sat to deliver her prophecies. Other suggestions are that the Pythia might have stood there, or an acolyte whose function was to deliver the final prophecy. The rock seems ideal for public speaking. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 114px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 112px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg/168px-Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg" decoding="async" width="112" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1323" data-file-height="1416"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 112px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg/168px-Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg" data-width="112" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg/252px-Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg/336px-Sibyl_stone_in_Delphi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Rock_of_Sibyl_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_(Delphi)_on_October_4,_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Rock_of_Sibyl_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg/270px-The_Rock_of_Sibyl_at_the_Sanctuary_of_Apollo_%28Delphi%29_on_October_4%2C_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 120px;" 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decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1980" data-file-height="1320"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Delfoi_temple_skyline_view.jpg/220px-Delfoi_temple_skyline_view.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Delfoi_temple_skyline_view.jpg/330px-Delfoi_temple_skyline_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Delfoi_temple_skyline_view.jpg/440px-Delfoi_temple_skyline_view.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The theatre at Delphi (as viewed near the top seats)</figcaption></figure> <p>The ancient <a href="/wiki/Theatre" title="Theatre">theatre</a> at Delphi was built farther up the hill from the Temple of Apollo giving spectators a view of the entire sanctuary and the valley below.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was originally built in the fourth century BC, but was remodeled on several occasions, particularly in 160/159 B.C. at the expenses of king Eumenes II of Pergamon and, in 67 A.D., on the occasion of emperor Nero's visit.<sup id="cite_ref-b_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The koilon (cavea) leans against the natural slope of the mountain whereas its eastern part overrides a little torrent that led the water of the fountain Cassotis right underneath the temple of Apollo. The <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece#Orchestra" title="Theatre of ancient Greece">orchestra</a> was initially a full circle with a diameter measuring seven meters. The rectangular scene building ended up in two arched openings, of which the foundations are preserved today. Access to the theatre was possible through the parodoi, i.e. the side corridors. On the support walls of the parodoi are engraved large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Manumission_inscriptions_at_Delphi" title="Manumission inscriptions at Delphi">manumission inscriptions</a> recording fictitious sales of the slaves to the deity. The koilon was divided horizontally in two zones via a corridor called diazoma. The lower zone had 27 rows of seats and the upper one only eight. Six radially arranged stairs divided the lower part of the koilon in seven tiers. The theatre could accommodate approximately 4,500 spectators.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the occasion of <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a>'s visit to Greece in 67 A.D. various alterations took place. The orchestra was paved and delimited by a parapet made of stone. The <a href="/wiki/Proscenium" title="Proscenium">proscenium</a> was replaced by a low pedestal, the <a href="/wiki/Pulpitum" title="Pulpitum">pulpitum</a>; its façade was decorated in relief with scenes from myths about Hercules. Further repairs and transformations took place in the second century A.D. Pausanias mentions that these were carried out under the auspices of <a href="/wiki/Herodes_Atticus" title="Herodes Atticus">Herod Atticus</a>. In antiquity, the theatre was used for the vocal and musical contests that formed part of the programme of the Pythian Games in the late Hellenistic and Roman period.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The theatre was abandoned when the sanctuary declined in Late Antiquity. After its excavation and initial restoration it hosted theatrical performances during the Delphic Festivals organized by A. Sikelianos and his wife, Eva Palmer, in 1927 and in 1930. It has recently been restored again as the serious landslides posed a grave threat for its stability for decades.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tholos">Tholos</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tholos" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG/170px-Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 227px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG/170px-Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG" data-width="170" data-height="227" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG/255px-Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG/340px-Delphi_tholos_cazzul.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Tholos_(Ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tholos (Ancient Rome)">Tholos</a> at the base of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Parnassus" title="Mount Parnassus">Mount Parnassus</a>: 3 of 20 <a href="/wiki/Doric_column" class="mw-redirect" title="Doric column">Doric columns</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg/290px-Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="130" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2418" data-file-height="1080"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 290px;height: 130px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg/290px-Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg" data-width="290" data-height="130" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg/435px-Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg/580px-Athina_Pronaia_Sanctuary_at_Delphi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Athena Pronaia Sanctuary at Delphi</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tholos_of_Delphi" title="Tholos of Delphi">Tholos of Delphi</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Tholos_(architecture)" title="Tholos (architecture)">tholos</a> at the sanctuary of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pronaea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pronaea (page does not exist)">Pronaea</a> (Ἀθηνᾶ Προναία, "Athena of forethought") is a circular building that was constructed between 380 and 360 BC. It consisted of 20 <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a> columns arranged with an exterior diameter of 14.76 meters, with 10 <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_order" title="Corinthian order">Corinthian</a> columns in the interior. </p><p>The Tholos is located approximately a half a mile (800 m) from the main ruins at Delphi (at <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Delphi&params=38.48016_N_22.50789_E_type:landmark_region:GR"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">38°28′49″N</span> <span class="longitude">22°30′28″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">38.48016°N 22.50789°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">38.48016; 22.50789</span></span></span></a></span></span>). Three of the Doric columns have been restored, making it the most popular site at Delphi for tourists to take photographs. </p><p>The architect of the "vaulted temple at Delphi" is named by <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/De_architectura" title="De architectura">De architectura</a></i> Book VII, as Theodorus Phoceus (not <a href="/wiki/Theodorus_of_Samos" title="Theodorus of Samos">Theodorus of Samos</a>, whom Vitruvius names separately).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gymnasium">Gymnasium</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Gymnasium" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Gymnasium_at_Delphi" title="Gymnasium at Delphi">Gymnasium at Delphi</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg/220px-The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1620" data-file-height="1080"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg/220px-The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg/330px-The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg/440px-The_Ancient_Gymnasium_at_Delphi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The ancient <a href="/wiki/Gymnasium_at_Delphi" title="Gymnasium at Delphi">Gymnasium at Delphi</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)" title="Gymnasium (ancient Greece)">gymnasium</a>, which is half a mile away from the main sanctuary, was a series of buildings used by the youth of Delphi. The building consisted of two levels: a <a href="/wiki/Stoa" title="Stoa">stoa</a> on the upper level providing open space, and a <a href="/wiki/Palaestra" title="Palaestra">palaestra</a>, pool, and baths on lower floor. These pools and baths were said to have magical powers, and imparted the ability to communicate directly to Apollo.<sup id="cite_ref-ministry_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ministry-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stadium">Stadium</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Stadium" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Stadium_of_Delphi" title="Stadium of Delphi">Stadium of Delphi</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg/220px-%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg/220px-%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg/330px-%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg/440px-%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BD2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The mountain-top stadium at Delphi</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Stadium" title="Stadium">stadium</a> is located farther up the hill, beyond the <i>via sacra</i> and the theatre. It was built in the fifth century BC, but was altered in later centuries. The last major remodelling took place in the second century AD under the patronage of <a href="/wiki/Herodes_Atticus" title="Herodes Atticus">Herodes Atticus</a> when the stone seating was built and an (arched) entrance created. It could seat 6500 spectators and the track was 177 metres long and 25.5 metres wide.<sup id="cite_ref-d_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-d-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hippodrome">Hippodrome</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Hippodrome" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>It was at the Pythian Games that prominent political leaders, such as <a href="/wiki/Cleisthenes_of_Sicyon" title="Cleisthenes of Sicyon">Cleisthenes</a>, tyrant of <a href="/wiki/Sikyon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sikyon">Sikyon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hiero_I_of_Syracuse" title="Hiero I of Syracuse">Hieron</a>, tyrant of <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a>, competed with their chariots. The hippodrome where these events took place was referred to by <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and this monument was sought by archaeologists for over two centuries. </p><p>Traces of it have recently been found at Gonia in the plain of <a href="/wiki/Crissa" title="Crissa">Krisa</a> in the place where the original stadium had been sited.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Polygonal_wall">Polygonal wall</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Polygonal wall" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg/220px-Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg/220px-Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg/330px-Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg/440px-Section_of_Polygonal_Wall_at_Delphi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Section of polygonal wall at Delphi, behind a pillar from the Athenian Stoa</figcaption></figure> <p>A retaining wall was built to support the terrace housing the construction of the second temple of Apollo in 548 BC. Its name is taken from the <a href="/wiki/Polygon" title="Polygon">polygonal</a> masonry of which it is constructed. At a later date, from 200 BC onwards, the stones were inscribed with the <a href="/wiki/Manumission" title="Manumission">manumission</a> (liberation) contracts of slaves who were consecrated to Apollo. Approximately a thousand manumissions are recorded on the wall.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Castalian_spring">Castalian spring</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Castalian spring" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Castalian_Spring" title="Castalian Spring">Castalian Spring</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Castalia" title="Castalia">Castalia</a></div> <p>The sacred spring of Delphi lies in the ravine of the Phaedriades. The preserved remains of two monumental fountains that received the water from the spring date to the <a href="/wiki/Archaic_period_in_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaic period in Greece">Archaic</a> period and the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a>, with the latter cut into the rock. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_Agora">Roman Agora</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Roman Agora" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roman_agora_(Delphi)_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg/220px-Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3211" data-file-height="2141"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg/220px-Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg/330px-Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg/440px-Roman_agora_%28Delphi%29_03.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>The first set of remains that the visitor sees upon entering the archaeological site of Delphi is the Roman Agora, which was just outside the <i>peribolos</i>, or precinct walls, of the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. The Roman Agora was built between the sanctuary and the <a href="/wiki/Castalian_Spring" title="Castalian Spring">Castalian Spring</a>, approximately 500 meters away.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This large rectangular paved square used to be surrounded by <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a> porticos on its three sides.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The square was built in the Roman period, but the remains visible at present along the north and northwestern sides date to the Late Antique period. </p><p>An open market was probably established, where the visitors would buy ex-votos, such as statuettes and small tripods, to leave as offerings to the gods. It also served as an assembly area for processions during sacred festivals.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">empire</a>, statues of the emperor and other notable benefactors were erected here as evidenced by the remaining pedestals.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In late, Antiquity workshops of artisans were also created within the agora. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Athletic_statues">Athletic statues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Athletic statues" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AurigaDelfi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/AurigaDelfi.jpg/170px-AurigaDelfi.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="288" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2063" data-file-height="3499"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 288px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/AurigaDelfi.jpg/170px-AurigaDelfi.jpg" data-width="170" data-height="288" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/AurigaDelfi.jpg/255px-AurigaDelfi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/AurigaDelfi.jpg/340px-AurigaDelfi.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The <i>Charioteer of Delphi</i>, 478 or 474 BC, Delphi Museum</figcaption></figure> <p>Delphi is famous for its many preserved athletic statues. It is known that Olympia originally housed far more of these statues, but time brought ruin to many of them, leaving Delphi as the main site of athletic statues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200498_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200498-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kleobis_and_Biton" title="Kleobis and Biton">Kleobis and Biton</a>, two brothers renowned for their strength, are modeled in two of the earliest known athletic statues at Delphi. The statues commemorate their feat of pulling their mother's cart several miles to the Sanctuary of <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a> in the absence of oxen. The neighbors were most impressed and their mother asked Hera to grant them the greatest gift. When they entered Hera's temple, they fell into a slumber and never woke, dying at the height of their admiration, the perfect gift.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200498_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200498-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Charioteer_of_Delphi" title="Charioteer of Delphi">Charioteer of Delphi</a> is another ancient relic that has withstood the centuries. It is one of the best known statues from antiquity. The charioteer has lost many features, including his chariot and his left arm, but he stands as a tribute to athletic art of antiquity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200498_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200498-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Myths_regarding_the_origin_of_the_precinct">Myths regarding the origin of the precinct</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Myths regarding the origin of the precinct" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CHURCH(1893)_p073_DELPHI.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg/300px-CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="216" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="949" data-file-height="684"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 300px;height: 216px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg/300px-CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg" data-width="300" data-height="216" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg/450px-CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg/600px-CHURCH%281893%29_p073_DELPHI.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Vulva of the Earth, Ge or Gaia, with the two <a href="/wiki/Phaedriades" title="Phaedriades">Phaedriades</a> above resembling her breasts. In this drawing the village of Castro still occupies the site. The footprint of the modern road is in the foreground. The village was thus entirely on the upper site. Below the road is the Marmoria, or "marble quarry", where the villagers mined structural stone. The picture below shows the site after the removal of the village.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a> would not accept <a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a>'s peace offering even if it included all the wealth in the "stone floor" of "rocky Pytho" (I 404). In the <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> (θ 79) Agamemnon crosses a "stone floor" to receive a prophecy from Apollo in Pytho, the first known of proto-history.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hesiod also refers to Pytho "in the hollows of Parnassus" (Theogony 498). These references imply that the earliest date of the oracle's existence is the eighth century BC, the probable date of composition of the Homeric works. </p><p>The main myths of Delphi are given in three literary "loci".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> H. W. Parke, the Delphi scholar, argued that the myths are self-contradictory,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thereby aligning with the <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarchian</a> epistemology that these myths are not to be taken as literal historical accounts but as symbolic narratives meant to explain oracular traditions." Parke asserts that there is no Apollo, no Zeus, no Hera, and certainly never was a great, serpent-like monster, and that the myths are pure Plutarchian figures of speech, meant to be <a href="/wiki/Origin_myth" title="Origin myth">aetiologies</a> of some oracular tradition. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Homeric_Hymns" title="Homeric Hymns">Homeric Hymn 3</a>, "To Apollo", is the oldest of the three loci, dating to the seventh century BC (estimate).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apollo travels about after his birth on <a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a> seeking a place for an oracle. He is advised by <a href="/wiki/Telephus" title="Telephus">Telephus</a> to choose <a href="/wiki/Crissa" title="Crissa">Crissa</a> "below the glade of <a href="/wiki/Parnassus" class="mw-redirect" title="Parnassus">Parnassus</a>", which he does, and has a temple built. Killing the serpent that guards the spring. Subsequently, some Cretans from <a href="/wiki/Knossos" title="Knossos">Knossos</a> sail up on a mission to reconnoitre <a href="/wiki/Pylos" title="Pylos">Pylos</a>. Changing into a dolphin, Apollo casts himself on deck. The Cretans do not dare to remove him but sail on. Apollo guides the ship around Greece, ending back at Crisa, where the ship grounds. Apollo enters his shrine with the Cretans to be its priests, worshipping him as <i>Delphineus</i>, "of the dolphin". </p><p>Zeus, a Classical deity, reportedly determined the site of Delphi when he sought to find the centre of his "Grandmother Earth" (<a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Gaia</a>). He sent two eagles flying from the eastern and western extremities, and the path of the eagles crossed over Delphi where the <a href="/wiki/Omphalos" title="Omphalos">omphalos</a>, or navel of Gaia was found.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harissis_2019_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harissis_2019-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> in the prologue of the <i><a href="/wiki/Oresteia#The_Eumenides" title="Oresteia">Eumenides</a></i>, the oracle had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of <a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Gaia</a>, a view echoed by H. W. Parke, who described the evolution of beliefs associated with the site. He established that the prehistoric foundation of the oracle is described by three early writers: the author of the <i>Homeric Hymn to Apollo</i>, <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> in the prologue to the <i>Eumenides</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> in a chorus in the <i>Iphigeneia in Tauris</i>. Parke goes on to say, "This version [Euripides] evidently reproduces in a sophisticated form the primitive tradition which Aeschylus for his own purposes had been at pains to contradict: the belief that Apollo came to Delphi as an invader and appropriated for himself a previously existing oracle of <a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Earth</a>. The slaying of the serpent is the act of conquest which secures his possession; not as in the <i>Homeric Hymn</i>, a merely secondary work of improvement on the site. Another difference is also noticeable. The <i>Homeric Hymn</i>, as we saw, implied that the method of prophecy used there was similar to that of <a href="/wiki/Dodona" title="Dodona">Dodona</a>: both Aeschylus and Euripides, writing in the fifth century, attribute to primeval times the same methods as used at Delphi in their own day. So much is implied by their allusions to tripods and prophetic seats... [he continues on p. 6] ...Another very archaic feature at Delphi also confirms the ancient associations of the place with the Earth goddess. This was the Omphalos, an egg-shaped stone which was situated in the innermost sanctuary of the temple in historic times. Classical legend asserted that it marked the 'navel' (Omphalos) or center of the Earth and explained that this spot was determined by <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> who had released two eagles to fly from opposite sides of the earth and that they had met exactly over this place". On p. 7 he writes further, "So Delphi was originally devoted to the worship of the Earth goddess whom the Greeks called Ge, or Gaia. <a href="/wiki/Themis" title="Themis">Themis</a>, who is associated with her in tradition as her daughter and partner or successor, is really another manifestation of the same deity: an identity that Aeschylus recognized in another context. The worship of these two, as one or distinguished, was displaced by the introduction of Apollo. His origin has been the subject of much learned controversy: it is sufficient for our purpose to take him as the <i>Homeric Hymn</i> represents him – a northern intruder – and his arrival must have occurred in the dark interval between Mycenaean and Hellenic times. His conflict with Ge for the possession of the cult site was represented under the legend of his slaying the serpent.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One tale of the sanctuary's discovery states that a goatherd, who grazed his flocks on Parnassus, one day observed his goats playing with great agility upon nearing a chasm in the rock; the goatherd noticing this held his head over the chasm causing the fumes to go to his brain; throwing him into a strange trance.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Homeric_Hymns" title="Homeric Hymns">Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo</a> recalled that the ancient name of this site had been <i>Krisa</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Others relate that the site was named <b>Pytho</b> (Πυθώ) and that Pythia, the priestess serving as the oracle, was chosen from their ranks by the priestesses who officiated at the temple. Apollo was said to have slain <a href="/wiki/Python_(mythology)" title="Python (mythology)">Python</a>, a <i>drako</i> (a male serpent or a dragon) who lived there and protected the <a href="/wiki/Omphalos" title="Omphalos">navel</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaia (mythology)">Earth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IK_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IK-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Python" (derived from the verb πύθω (<i>pythō</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-rot_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rot-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "to <a href="/wiki/Decomposition" title="Decomposition">rot</a>") is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of Python that Apollo defeated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200495_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200495-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name <i>Delphi</i> comes from the same root as δελφύς <i>delphys</i>, "womb" and may indicate archaic veneration of <a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Gaia</a> at the site. Several other scholars discuss the likely prehistoric beliefs associated with the site.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Apollo is connected with the site by his <a href="/wiki/Epithet" title="Epithet">epithet</a> Δελφίνιος <i>Delphinios</i>, "the Delphinian". The epithet is connected with <a href="/wiki/Dolphin" title="Dolphin">dolphins</a> (Greek δελφίς,-ῖνος) in the <a href="/wiki/Homeric_hymns" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeric hymns">Homeric <i>Hymn to Apollo</i></a> (line 400), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Cretan</a> priests on his back. The <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homeric</a> name of the oracle is <i>Pytho</i> (Πυθώ).<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another legend held that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at <a href="/wiki/Vale_of_Tempe" title="Vale of Tempe">Tempe</a>, a city in <a href="/wiki/Thessaly" title="Thessaly">Thessaly</a>, to pick laurel (also known as <a href="/wiki/Bay_laurel" class="mw-redirect" title="Bay laurel">bay tree</a>) which he considered to be a sacred plant. In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a wreath of laurel picked in the temple. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Oracle_of_Delphi">Oracle of Delphi</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Oracle of Delphi" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_prophetic_process">The prophetic process</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: The prophetic process" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Delphic_Sibyl" title="Delphic Sibyl">Delphic Sibyl</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi-01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Delphi-01.jpg/220px-Delphi-01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="340" data-file-height="169"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 109px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Delphi-01.jpg/220px-Delphi-01.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="109" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Delphi-01.jpg/330px-Delphi-01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Delphi-01.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Coin (<a href="/wiki/Obol_(coin)" title="Obol (coin)">obol</a>) struck at Delphi, 480 BC, obverse: Short <a href="/wiki/Sacrificial_tripod" title="Sacrificial tripod">tripod</a>, reverse: Pellet within circle (<a href="/wiki/Omphalos" title="Omphalos">omphalos</a> or <a href="/wiki/Patera" title="Patera">phiale</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>Perhaps Delphi is best known for its oracle, the <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Sibyl" title="Sibyl">sibyl</a>, the priestess prophesying from the tripod in the sunken adyton of the Temple of <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>. The Pythia was known as a spokesperson for Apollo. She was a woman of blameless life chosen from the peasants of the area. Alone in an enclosed inner sanctum (Ancient Greek <i>adyton</i> – "do not enter") she sat on a tripod seat over an opening in the earth (the "chasm"). According to legend, when Apollo slew Python its body fell into this fissure and fumes arose from its decomposing body. Intoxicated by the vapors, the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit. In this state she prophesied. The oracle could not be consulted during the winter months, for this was traditionally the time when Apollo would live among the <a href="/wiki/Hyperboreans" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperboreans">Hyperboreans</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> would inhabit the temple during his absence.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of note, release of fumes is limited in colder weather. </p><p>The time to consult Pythia for an oracle during the year was determined from astronomical and geological grounds related to the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus.<sup id="cite_ref-Liritzis_Castro_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Liritzis_Castro-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar practice was followed in other Apollo oracles too.<sup id="cite_ref-Oracular_Func_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oracular_Func-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hydrocarbon vapors emitted from the chasm. While in a trance the Pythia "raved" – probably a form of ecstatic speech – and her ravings were "translated" by the priests of the temple into elegant hexameters. It has been speculated that the ancient writers, including <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> who had worked as a priest at Delphi, were correct in attributing the oracular effects to the sweet-smelling <i><a href="/wiki/Pneuma" title="Pneuma">pneuma</a></i> (Ancient Greek for breath, wind, or vapor) escaping from the chasm in the rock. That exhalation could have been high in the known anaesthetic and sweet-smelling <a href="/wiki/Ethylene" title="Ethylene">ethylene</a> or other hydrocarbons such as <a href="/wiki/Ethane" title="Ethane">ethane</a> known to produce violent trances. Although, given the limestone geology, this theory remains debatable, the authors put up a detailed answer to their critics.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Roach_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roach-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ancient sources describe the priestess using "<a href="/wiki/Laurus_nobilis" title="Laurus nobilis">laurel</a>" to inspire her prophecies. Several alternative plant candidates have been suggested including <a href="/wiki/Cannabis" title="Cannabis">Cannabis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hyoscyamus" title="Hyoscyamus">Hyoscyamus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhododendron" title="Rhododendron">Rhododendron</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oleander" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleander">Oleander</a>. Harissis claims that a review of contemporary toxicological literature indicates that <a href="/wiki/Oleander" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleander">oleander</a> causes symptoms similar to those shown by the Pythia, and his study of ancient texts shows that oleander was often included under the term "laurel". The Pythia may have chewed oleander leaves and inhaled their smoke prior to her oracular pronouncements and sometimes dying from the toxicity. The toxic substances of oleander resulted in symptoms similar to those of epilepsy, the "sacred disease", which may have been seen as the possession of the Pythia by the spirit of Apollo.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg/170px-%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="5184"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 255px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg/170px-%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg" data-width="170" data-height="255" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg/255px-%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg/340px-%27Delphic_Sibyl_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU37.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Fresco of Delphic sibyl painted by Michaelangelo at the Sistine Chapel</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influence,_devastations_and_a_temporary_revival"><span id="Influence.2C_devastations_and_a_temporary_revival"></span>Influence, devastations and a temporary revival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Influence, devastations and a temporary revival" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The Delphic oracle exerted considerable influence throughout the Greek world, and she was consulted before all major undertakings including wars and the founding of <a href="/wiki/Greek_colonies" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek colonies">colonies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also was respected by the Greek-influenced countries around the periphery of the Greek world, such as <a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caria" title="Caria">Caria</a>, and even <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a>. </p><p>The oracle was also known to the early Romans. Rome's seventh and last <a href="/wiki/King_of_Rome" title="King of Rome">king</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Superbus">Lucius Tarquinius Superbus</a>, after witnessing a snake near his palace, sent a delegation including two of his sons to consult the oracle.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 278 BC, a Thracian (Celtic) tribe raided Delphi, burned the temple, plundered the sanctuary and stole the "unquenchable fire" from the altar. During the raid, part of the temple roof collapsed.<sup id="cite_ref-Lampsas_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lampsas-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year, the temple was severely damaged by an earthquake, thus it fell into decay and the surrounding area became impoverished. The sparse local population led to difficulties in filling the posts required. The oracle's credibility waned due to doubtful predictions.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The oracle flourished again in the second century AD, during the rule of emperor <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a>, who is believed to have visited the oracle twice and offered complete autonomy to the city.<sup id="cite_ref-Lampsas_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lampsas-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 4th century, Delphi had acquired the status of a <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">city</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine the Great</a> looted several monuments in Eastern Mediterranean, including Delphi, to decorate his new capital, <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>. One of those famous items was the bronze column of Plataea (The Serpent Column; Ancient Greek: Τρικάρηνος Ὄφις, Three-headed Serpent; Turkish: Yılanlı Sütun, Serpentine Column) from the sanctuary (dated 479 BC), relocated there from Delphi in AD 324, which can still be seen today standing destroyed at a square of Istanbul (where once upon a time was the Hippodrome of Constantinople, built by Constantine; Ottoman Turkish: Atmeydanı "Horse Square") <sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with part of one of its heads kept in the <a href="/wiki/Istanbul_Archaeology_Museums" title="Istanbul Archaeology Museums">Istanbul Archaeology Museums</a> (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri). </p><p>Despite the rise of Christianity across the Roman Empire, the oracle remained a religious center throughout the fourth century, and the Pythian Games continued to be held at least until 424 AD;<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, the decline continued. The attempt of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian</a> to revive polytheism did not survive his reign.<sup id="cite_ref-Lampsas_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lampsas-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Excavations have revealed a large three-<a href="/wiki/Aisle" title="Aisle">aisled</a> basilica in the city, as well as traces of a church building in the sanctuary's gymnasium.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_65-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site was abandoned in the sixth or seventh centuries, although a single bishop of Delphi is attested in an episcopal list of the late eighth and early ninth centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_65-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In modern times, the structured method of communication and forecasting known as the <a href="/wiki/Delphi_technique" class="mw-redirect" title="Delphi technique">Delphi technique</a> takes its name from the oracle of Delphi,<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although some founders and early developers of the technique considered that the adoption of the name "Delphi" was unfortunate and undesirable.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_significance_of_the_oracle">Religious significance of the oracle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Religious significance of the oracle" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg/220px-Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="5070" data-file-height="3763"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 163px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg/220px-Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="163" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg/330px-Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg/440px-Delphi_Temple_of_Apollo.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Ruins of the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi, overlooking the valley of Phocis</figcaption></figure> <p>Delphi became the site of a major temple to <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Phoebus Apollo</a>, as well as the Pythian Games and the prehistoric oracle. Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive statues remained, described by <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny the Younger</a> and seen by <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>. Carved into the temple were three phrases: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">γνῶθι σεαυτόν</span></span> (<i>gnōthi seautón</i> = "<a href="/wiki/Know_thyself" title="Know thyself">know thyself</a>") and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">μηδὲν ἄγαν</span></span> (<i>mēdén ágan</i> = "nothing in excess"), and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἑγγύα πάρα δ'ἄτη</span></span> (<i>engýa pára d'atē</i> = "make a pledge and <a href="/wiki/At%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Atë">mischief</a> is nigh"),<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In antiquity, the origin of these phrases was attributed to one or more of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece" title="Seven Sages of Greece">Seven Sages of Greece</a> by authors such as <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Pausanias.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, according to <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>'s essay on the meaning of the <i>"E at Delphi"</i>—the only literary source for the inscription—there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter <a href="/wiki/Epsilon" title="Epsilon">E</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among other things epsilon signifies the number <a href="/wiki/5_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="5 (number)">5</a>. However, ancient as well as modern scholars have doubted the legitimacy of such inscriptions.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to one pair of scholars, "The actual authorship of the three maxims set up on the Delphian temple may be left uncertain. Most likely they were popular proverbs, which tended later to be attributed to particular sages."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the Homeric hymn to the Pythian Apollo, Apollo shot his first arrow as an infant that effectively slew the serpent Pytho, the son of Gaia, who guarded the spot. To atone the murder of Gaia's son, Apollo was forced to fly and spend eight years in menial service before he could return forgiven. A festival, the Septeria, was held every year, at which the whole story was represented: the slaying of the serpent, and the flight, atonement, and return of the god.<sup id="cite_ref-article_on_Delphic_Oracle_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-article_on_Delphic_Oracle-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Pythian Games took place every four years to commemorate Apollo's victory.<sup id="cite_ref-article_on_Delphic_Oracle_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-article_on_Delphic_Oracle-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another regular Delphi festival was the "<a href="/wiki/Theophany" title="Theophany">Theophania</a>" (Θεοφάνεια), an annual festival in spring celebrating the return of Apollo from his winter quarters in <a href="/wiki/Hyperborea" title="Hyperborea">Hyperborea</a>. The culmination of the festival was a display of an image of the deities, usually hidden in the <a href="/wiki/Sanctuary" title="Sanctuary">sanctuary</a>, to worshippers.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>theoxenia</i> was held each summer, centred on a feast for "gods and ambassadors from other states". Myths indicate that Apollo killed the chthonic <a href="/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serpent (symbolism)">serpent</a> <a href="/wiki/Python_(mythology)" title="Python (mythology)">Python</a> guarding the <a href="/wiki/Castalian_Spring" title="Castalian Spring">Castalian Spring</a> and named his priestess <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a> after her. Python, who had been sent by <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>, had attempted to prevent <a href="/wiki/Leto" title="Leto">Leto</a>, while she was pregnant with Apollo and <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a>, from giving birth.<sup id="cite_ref-GrantHazel2004_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GrantHazel2004-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The spring at the site flowed toward the temple but disappeared beneath, creating a cleft which emitted chemical vapors that purportedly caused the oracle at Delphi to reveal her prophecies. Apollo killed Python, but had to be punished for it, since he was a child of Gaia. The shrine dedicated to Apollo was originally dedicated to Gaia and shared with <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-article_on_Delphic_Oracle_75-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-article_on_Delphic_Oracle-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name Pythia remained as the title of the Delphic <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">oracle</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rohde" title="Erwin Rohde">Erwin Rohde</a> wrote that the Python was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the <a href="/wiki/Omphalos" title="Omphalos">omphalos</a>, and that it is a case of one deity setting up a temple on the grave of another.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another view holds that Apollo was a fairly recent addition to the Greek <a href="/wiki/Pantheon_(gods)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantheon (gods)">pantheon</a> coming originally from <a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <p>Occupation of the site at Delphi can be traced back to the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> period with extensive occupation and use beginning in the Mycenaean period (1600–1100 BC). In Mycenaean times <a href="/wiki/Crissa" title="Crissa">Krissa</a> was a major Greek land and sea power, perhaps one of the first in Greece, if the Early Helladic date of Kirra is to be believed.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ancient sources indicate that the previous name of the Gulf of Corinth was the "Krisaean Gulf".<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like Krisa, Corinth was a Dorian state, and Gulf of Corinth was a Dorian lake, so to speak, especially since the migration of Dorians into the Peloponnesus starting about 1000 BC. Krisa's power was broken finally by the recovered Aeolic and Attic-Ionic speaking states of southern Greece over the issue of access to Delphi. Control of it was assumed by the <a href="/wiki/Amphictyonic_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphictyonic League">Amphictyonic League</a>, an organization of states with an interest in Delphi, in the early Classical period. Krisa was destroyed for its arrogance. The gulf was given Corinth's name. Corinth by then was similar to the Ionic states: ornate and innovative, not resembling the spartan style of the Doric. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_Delphi">Ancient Delphi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Ancient Delphi" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Earlier myths<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harissis_2019_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harissis_2019-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> include traditions that <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a>, or the Delphic oracle, already was the site of an important oracle in the pre-classical Greek world (as early as 1400 BC) and, rededicated from about 800 BC, when it served as the major site during classical times for the worship of the god <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg/290px-Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="182" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="997" data-file-height="624"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 290px;height: 182px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg/290px-Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg" data-width="290" data-height="182" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg/435px-Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg/580px-Delphi_by_Albert_Tournaire.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Speculative illustration of ancient Delphi by French architect Albert Tournaire</figcaption></figure> <p>Delphi was since ancient times a place of worship for <a href="/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaia (mythology)">Gaia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mother_goddess" title="Mother goddess">mother goddess</a> connected with fertility. The town started to gain pan-Hellenic relevance as both a shrine and an oracle in the seventh century BC. Initially under the control of <a href="/wiki/Phocis_(ancient_region)" title="Phocis (ancient region)">Phocaean</a> settlers based in nearby <a href="/wiki/Kirra,_Phocis" title="Kirra, Phocis">Kirra</a> (currently <a href="/wiki/Itea,_Phocis" title="Itea, Phocis">Itea</a>), Delphi was reclaimed by the <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athenians</a> during the <a href="/wiki/First_Sacred_War" title="First Sacred War">First Sacred War</a> (597–585 BC). The conflict resulted in the consolidation of the <a href="/wiki/Amphictyonic_League#The_Delphic_Amphictyony" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphictyonic League">Amphictyonic League</a>, which had both a military and a religious function revolving around the protection of the <a href="#Temple_of_Apollo">Temple of Apollo</a>. This shrine was destroyed by fire in 548 BC and then fell under the control of the <a href="/wiki/Alcmaeonidae" title="Alcmaeonidae">Alcmaeonids</a> who were banned from Athens. In 449–448 BC, the <a href="/wiki/Second_Sacred_War" title="Second Sacred War">Second Sacred War</a> (fought in the wider context of the <a href="/wiki/First_Peloponnesian_War" title="First Peloponnesian War">First Peloponnesian War</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnesian_League" title="Peloponnesian League">Peloponnesian League</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Delian_League" title="Delian League">Delian-Attic League</a> led by Athens) resulted in the <a href="/wiki/Phocis_(ancient_region)" title="Phocis (ancient region)">Phocians</a> gaining control of Delphi and the management of the <a href="/wiki/Pythian_Games" title="Pythian Games">Pythian Games</a>. </p><p>In 356 BC, the Phocians under Philomelos captured and sacked Delphi, leading to the <a href="/wiki/Third_Sacred_War" title="Third Sacred War">Third Sacred War</a> (356–346 BC), which ended with the defeat of the former and the <a href="/wiki/Rise_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Rise of Macedon">rise of Macedon</a> under the reign of <a href="/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon" title="Philip II of Macedon">Philip II</a>. This led to the <a href="/wiki/Rise_of_Macedon#Fourth_Sacred_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Rise of Macedon">Fourth Sacred War</a> (339 BC), which culminated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chaeronea_(338_BC)" title="Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)">Battle of Chaeronea</a> (338 BC) and the establishment of Macedonian rule over Greece. </p><p>In Delphi, Macedonian rule was superseded by the <a href="/wiki/Aetolians" class="mw-redirect" title="Aetolians">Aetolians</a> in 279 BC, when a <a href="/wiki/Gallic_invasion_of_the_Balkans" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallic invasion of the Balkans">Gallic invasion</a> was repelled, and by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Romans</a> in 191 BC. The site was sacked by <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Lucius Cornelius Sulla</a> in 86 BC, during the <a href="/wiki/Mithridatic_Wars" title="Mithridatic Wars">Mithridatic Wars</a>, and by <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a> in 66 AD. Although subsequent Roman emperors of the <a href="/wiki/Flavian_dynasty" title="Flavian dynasty">Flavian dynasty</a> contributed toward to the restoration of the site, it gradually lost importance.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The anti-pagan legislation of the late Roman Imperial era deprived ancient sanctuaries of their assets.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The emperor <a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian</a> attempted to reverse this religious climate, yet his "pagan revival" was particularly short-lived. When the doctor <a href="/wiki/Oreibasius" class="mw-redirect" title="Oreibasius">Oreibasius</a> visited the oracle of Delphi, in order to question the fate of paganism, he received a pessimistic answer:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <blockquote><p>Tell the king that the flute has fallen to the ground. Phoebus does not have a home any more, neither an oracular laurel, nor a speaking fountain, because the talking water has dried out</p></blockquote> <p>It was shut down during the <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_pagans_in_the_late_Roman_Empire" title="Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire">persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire</a> by <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius I</a> in 381 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Amphictyonic_Council">Amphictyonic Council</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Amphictyonic Council" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Amphictyonic_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphictyonic League">Amphictyonic Council</a> was a council of representatives from six Greek tribes who controlled Delphi and also the quadrennial Pythian Games. They met biannually and came from Thessaly and central Greece. Over time, the town of Delphi gained more control of itself and the council lost much of its influence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_sacred_precinct_in_the_Iron_Age">The sacred precinct in the Iron Age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: The sacred precinct in the Iron Age" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:07Delphi_Fries01_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg/280px-07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="121" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3176" data-file-height="1367"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 280px;height: 121px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg/280px-07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg" data-width="280" data-height="121" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg/420px-07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg/560px-07Delphi_Fries01_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Section of the frieze from the <a href="/wiki/Treasury_of_the_Siphnians" class="mw-redirect" title="Treasury of the Siphnians">Treasury of the Siphnians</a>, now in the museum</figcaption></figure> <p>Excavation at Delphi, which was a post-Mycenaean settlement of the late ninth century, has uncovered artifacts increasing steadily in volume beginning with the last quarter of the eighth century BC. Pottery and bronze as well as tripod dedications continue in a steady stream, in contrast to <a href="/wiki/Olympia,_Greece" title="Olympia, Greece">Olympia</a>. Neither the range of objects nor the presence of prestigious dedications proves that Delphi was a focus of attention for a wide range of worshippers, but the large quantity of valuable goods, found in no other mainland sanctuary, encourages that view. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>'s sacred precinct in Delphi was a <a href="/wiki/Panhellenic_Sanctuary" class="mw-redirect" title="Panhellenic Sanctuary">Panhellenic Sanctuary</a>, where every four years, starting in 586 BC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200496_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200496-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the <a href="/wiki/Pythian_Games" title="Pythian Games">Pythian Games</a>, one of the four <a href="/wiki/Panhellenic_Games" title="Panhellenic Games">Panhellenic Games</a>, precursors of the <a href="/wiki/Modern_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern Olympics">Modern Olympics</a>. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown (<i>stephanos</i>) that was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200496_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200496-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (These competitions are also called stephantic games, after the crown.) Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200495_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200495-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephantic games chronologically and in importance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200496_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200496-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These games, however, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the area surrounding Olympia. Delphi would have been a renowned city regardless of whether it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the "omphalos" (navel) of the earth, in other words, the centre of the world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200496_83-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200496-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200497_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200497-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg/220px-Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="768"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 282px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg/220px-Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="282" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg/330px-Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg/440px-Ciriaco_d%27Ancona_di_Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cyriacus_of_Ancona" title="Cyriacus of Ancona">Cyriacus of Ancona</a>, first Westerner to describe the remains in Delphi in 1436</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg/220px-Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1323" data-file-height="1311"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 218px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg/220px-Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="218" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg/330px-Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg/440px-Portr%C3%A4t_der_Society_of_Dilettanti.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Dilettanti" title="Society of Dilettanti">Society of Dilettanti</a> organized a study expedition to Delphi in 1766</figcaption></figure> <p>In the inner <i>hestia</i> (<a href="/wiki/Hearth" title="Hearth">hearth</a>) of the Temple of Apollo, an <a href="/wiki/Eternal_flame" title="Eternal flame">eternal flame</a> burned. After the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Plataea" title="Battle of Plataea">battle of Plataea</a>, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the <a href="/wiki/Foundation_story" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation story">foundation stories</a> of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurkert198561,_84_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurkert198561,_84-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abandonment_and_rediscovery">Abandonment and rediscovery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Abandonment and rediscovery" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turks" title="Ottoman Turks">Ottomans</a> finalized their domination over <a href="/wiki/Phocis_(ancient_region)" title="Phocis (ancient region)">Phocis</a> and Delphi in about 1410 AD. Delphi itself remained almost uninhabited for centuries. It seems that one of the first buildings of the early modern era was the monastery of the <a href="/wiki/Dormition_of_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Dormition of Mary">Dormition of Mary</a> or of <a href="/wiki/Panagia" title="Panagia">Panagia</a> (the Mother of God) built above the ancient <a href="/wiki/Gymnasium_at_Delphi" title="Gymnasium at Delphi">gymnasium at Delphi</a>. It must have been toward the end of the fifteenth or in the sixteenth century that a settlement started forming there, which eventually ended up forming the village of <a href="/wiki/Kastri,_Phocis" title="Kastri, Phocis">Kastri</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Delphi" title="Ottoman Delphi">Ottoman Delphi</a> gradually began to be investigated. The first Westerner to describe the remains in Delphi was <a href="/wiki/Cyriacus_of_Ancona" title="Cyriacus of Ancona">Cyriacus of Ancona</a>, a fifteenth-century merchant turned diplomat and antiquarian, considered the founding father of modern classical archeology.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He visited Delphi in March 1436 and remained there for six days. He recorded all the visible archaeological remains based on <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> for identification. He described the stadium and the theatre at that date as well as some freestanding pieces of sculpture. He also recorded several inscriptions, most of which are now lost. His identifications, however, were not always correct: for example he described a round building he saw as the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)" title="Temple of Apollo (Delphi)">temple of Apollo</a> while this was simply the base of the Argives' ex-voto. A severe earthquake in 1500 caused much damage. </p><p>In 1766, an English expedition funded by the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Dilettanti" title="Society of Dilettanti">Society of Dilettanti</a> included the Oxford epigraphist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Chandler_(antiquary)" title="Richard Chandler (antiquary)">Richard Chandler</a>, the architect <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Revett" title="Nicholas Revett">Nicholas Revett</a>, and the painter <a href="/wiki/William_Pars" title="William Pars">William Pars</a>. Their studies were published in 1769 under the title <i>Ionian Antiquities</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> followed by a collection of inscriptions,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and two travel books, one about Asia Minor (1775),<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and one about Greece (1776).<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from the antiquities, they also related some vivid descriptions of daily life in Kastri, such as the crude behaviour of the Muslim Albanians who guarded the mountain passes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1805 <a href="/wiki/Edward_Dodwell" title="Edward Dodwell">Edward Dodwell</a> visited Delphi, accompanied by the painter Simone Pomardi.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a> visited in 1809, accompanied by his friend <a href="/wiki/John_Cam_Hobhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="John Cam Hobhouse">John Cam Hobhouse</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>Yet there I've wandered by the vaulted rill </p><p>Yes! Sighed o'er Delphi's long deserted shrine, </p><p> where, save that feeble fountain, all is still.</p></blockquote> <p>He carved his name on the same column in the gymnasium as <a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen" title="George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen">Lord Aberdeen</a>, later Prime Minister, who had visited a few years before. Proper excavation did not start until the late nineteenth century (see "Excavations" section) after the village had moved. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Delphi_in_later_art">Delphi in later art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Delphi in later art" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg/250px-Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="180" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1080"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 250px;height: 180px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg/250px-Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg" data-width="250" data-height="180" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg/375px-Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg/500px-Delphi_-_Gerbelius_Nicolas_-_1545.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Nocolas' Gerbel' fanciful Delphic castle</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg/220px-Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2282"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 157px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg/220px-Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="157" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg/330px-Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg/440px-Claude_Lorrain_027.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><i>View of Delphi with Sacrificial Procession</i> by <a href="/wiki/Claude_Lorrain" title="Claude Lorrain">Claude Lorrain</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear,_watercolor,_12_by_19_cm..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg/220px-%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1283" data-file-height="827"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 142px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg/220px-%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg" data-width="220" data-height="142" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg/330px-%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg/440px-%27Delphi%27_by_Edward_Lear%2C_watercolor%2C_12_by_19_cm..jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><i>Delphi</i> by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Lear" title="Edward Lear">Edward Lear</a> features the <a href="/wiki/Phaedriades" title="Phaedriades">Phaedriades</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg/220px-Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="579"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 159px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg/220px-Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="159" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg/330px-Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg/440px-Itea_from_Delphi_-_Willoughby_Vera_-_1925.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><i>Itea from Delphi</i> (1925) by <a href="/wiki/Willoughby_Verner" title="Willoughby Verner">Willoughby Vera</a> - Itea is a town located in Greece</figcaption></figure> <p>From the sixteenth century onward, woodcuts of Delphi began to appear in printed maps and books. The earliest depictions of Delphi were totally imaginary; for example, those created by <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_Gerbel" title="Nikolaus Gerbel">Nikolaus Gerbel</a>, who published in 1545 a text based on the map of Greece by N. Sofianos. The ancient sanctuary was depicted as a fortified city.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first travelers with archaeological interests, apart from the precursor Cyriacus of Ancona, were the British <a href="/wiki/George_Wheler_(clergyman_and_scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Wheler (clergyman and scholar)">George Wheler</a> and the French <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Spon" title="Jacob Spon">Jacob Spon</a>, who visited Greece in a joint expedition in 1675–1676. They published their impressions separately. In Wheler's "Journey into Greece", published in 1682, a sketch of the region of Delphi appeared, where the settlement of Kastri and some ruins were depicted. The illustrations in Spon's publication "Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce et du Levant, 1678" are considered original and groundbreaking. </p><p>Travelers continued to visit Delphi throughout the nineteenth century and published their books which contained diaries, sketches, and views of the site, as well as pictures of coins. The illustrations often reflected the spirit of romanticism, as evident by the works of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, where, apart from the landscapes (<i>La Grèce. Vues pittoresques et topographiques</i>, Paris 1834) are depicted also human types (<i>Costumes et usages des peuples de la Grèce moderne dessinés sur les lieux</i>, Paris 1828). The philhellene painter W. Williams has comprised the landscape of Delphi in his themes (1829). Influential personalities such as F.Ch.-H.-L. Pouqueville, W.M. Leake, Chr. Wordsworth and Lord Byron are amongst the most important visitors of Delphi. </p><p>After the foundation of the modern Greek state, the press became also interested in these travelers. Thus "Ephemeris" writes (17 March 1889): In the <i>Revues des Deux Mondes</i> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Lefaivre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Lefaivre (page does not exist)">Paul Lefaivre</a> published his memoirs from an excursion to Delphi. The French author relates in a charming style his adventures on the road, praising particularly the ability of an old woman to put back in place the dislocated arm of one of his foreign traveling companions, who had fallen off the horse. "In <a href="/wiki/Arachova" title="Arachova">Arachova</a> the Greek type is preserved intact. The men are rather athletes than farmers, built for running and wrestling, particularly elegant and slender under their mountain gear." Only briefly does he refer to the antiquities of Delphi, but he refers to a pelasgian wall 80 meters long, "on which innumerable inscriptions are carved, decrees, conventions, manumissions".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Gradually the first travelling guides appeared. The revolutionary "pocket" books invented by <a href="/wiki/Karl_Baedeker" title="Karl Baedeker">Karl Baedeker</a>, accompanied by maps useful for visiting archaeological sites such as Delphi (1894) and the informed plans, the guides became practical and popular. The photographic lens revolutionized the way of depicting the landscape and the antiquities, particularly from 1893 onward, when the systematic excavations of the French Archaeological School started. However, artists such as Vera Willoughby, continued to be inspired by the landscape.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Delphic themes inspired several graphic artists. Besides the landscape, <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a> and Sibylla become illustration subjects even on Tarot cards.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A famous example constitutes Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl (1509),<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the nineteenth-century German engraving, Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, as well as the recent ink on paper drawing, "The Oracle of Delphi" (2013) by M. Lind.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modern artists are inspired also by the Delphic Maxims. Examples of such works are displayed in the "Sculpture park of the European Cultural Center of Delphi" and in exhibitions taking place at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Delphi_in_later_literature">Delphi in later literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Delphi in later literature" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Delphi" title="Special:EditPage/Delphi">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2019</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Delphi inspired literature as well. In 1814 W. Haygarth, friend of Lord Byron, refers to Delphi in his work "Greece, a Poem". In 1888 <a href="/wiki/Charles_Marie_Ren%C3%A9_Leconte_de_Lisle" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle">Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle</a> published his lyric drama L’Apollonide, accompanied by music by <a href="/wiki/Franz_Servais" title="Franz Servais">Franz Servais</a>. More recent French authors used Delphi as a source of inspiration such as <a href="/wiki/Yves_Bonnefoy" title="Yves Bonnefoy">Yves Bonnefoy</a> (Delphes du second jour) or Jean Sullivan (nickname of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Lemarchand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Lemarchand (page does not exist)">Joseph Lemarchand</a>) in L'Obsession de Delphes (1967), but also <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_MacGregor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob MacGregor (page does not exist)">Rob MacGregor</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Peril_at_Delphi" title="Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi">Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi</a> (1991). </p><p>The presence of Delphi in <a href="/wiki/Greek_literature" title="Greek literature">Greek literature</a> is very intense. Poets such as <a href="/wiki/Kostis_Palamas" title="Kostis Palamas">Kostis Palamas</a> (The Delphic Hymn, 1894), <a href="/wiki/Kostas_Karyotakis" title="Kostas Karyotakis">Kostas Karyotakis</a> (Delphic festival, 1927), <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_Vrettakos" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikephoros Vrettakos">Nikephoros Vrettakos</a> (return from Delphi, 1957), <a href="/wiki/Yannis_Ritsos" class="mw-redirect" title="Yannis Ritsos">Yannis Ritsos</a> (Delphi, 1961–62) and <a href="/wiki/Kiki_Dimoula" title="Kiki Dimoula">Kiki Dimoula</a> (Gas omphalos and Appropriate terrain 1988), to mention only the most renowned ones. <a href="/wiki/Angelos_Sikelianos" title="Angelos Sikelianos">Angelos Sikelianos</a> wrote The Dedication (of the Delphic speech) (1927), the Delphic Hymn (1927) and the tragedy Sibylla (1940), whereas in the context of the Delphic idea and the Delphic festivals he published an essay entitled "The Delphic union" (1930). The nobelist <a href="/wiki/George_Seferis" class="mw-redirect" title="George Seferis">George Seferis</a> wrote an essay under the title "Delphi", in the book "Dokimes".<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Gallery" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> 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style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Phaedriades,_Delphi,_060032.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Phaedriades"><noscript><img alt="The Phaedriades" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg/133px-Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg" decoding="async" width="133" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3456"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 133px;height: 200px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg/133px-Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg" data-alt="The Phaedriades" data-width="133" data-height="200" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg/200px-Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg/266px-Phaedriades%2C_Delphi%2C_060032.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Phaedriades" title="Phaedriades">Phaedriades</a></div> </li> </ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(11)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-11 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-11"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristoclea" class="mw-redirect" title="Aristoclea">Aristoclea</a>, Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to <a href="/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ex_voto_of_the_Attalids_(Delphi)" title="Ex voto of the Attalids (Delphi)">Ex voto of the Attalids (Delphi)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Weber_(activist)" title="Franz Weber (activist)">Franz Weber (activist)</a> - made an honorary citizen of Delphi in 1997</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_art" title="Greek art">Greek art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_traditional_Greek_place_names" class="mw-redirect" title="List of traditional Greek place names">List of traditional Greek place names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portico_of_the_Aetolians" title="Portico of the Aetolians">Portico of the Aetolians</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(12)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 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title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span></span>/</a></span></span> or, in a more Greek-like manner, as <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>/</a></span></span>. The bottom line on the etymology is that Delphoi is related to delphus, "womb", which is consistent with the omphalos stone there being considered the "navel" of the universe and the site being the uterus of <a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Earth</a>. The delphis, or "dolphin" connection, is an accidental result of the dolpins being named from their uterus-like appearance. The full etymology is to be found in Frisk.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The inscriptional variants, Dalphoi, Dolphoi, Derphoi,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> might appear to be dialects, especially Dalphoi, usually taken as Phocian, as the Phocians spoke Doric. Frisk labels them as secondary developments, including the apparent Doric original a in Dalphoi. It could well be Phocian, but was not originally Doric. The true dialect form, Aeolic Belphoi, with Delphoi, must be reflexes of a Bronze Age *G<sup>w</sup>elp<sup>h</sup>oi, which does not have an original "a".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frisk's Proto-Indoeuropean is *g<sup>w</sup>elb<sup>h</sup>-u-, with a -u- extension. Without the extension there is no relation between Delphoi and delphus. However, Frisk, a major Indo-Europeanist, cites some parallels of -woi- to -oi- in other words. The evidence from mythology adds strength to his hypothesis. Without the w, Delphoi is not related to Delphus, but only seems so. The etymology of dolphin is fairly standard.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"All three versions, instead of being simple and traditional, are already selective and tendentious. They disagree with each other..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The poem has two parts, "To Delian Apollo" and "To Pythian Apollo". The Pytho myth is only in the latter.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Such was its prestige that most Hellenes after 500 BCE placed its foundation in the earliest days of the world: before Apollo took possession, they said, Ge (Earth) (<i>Gaia</i>) and her daughter Themis had spoken oracles at Pytho. Such has been the strength of the tradition that many historians and others have accepted as historical fact the ancient statement that Ge and Themis spoke oracles before it became Apollo's establishment, yet nothing but the myth supports this statement. In the earliest account known of the Delphic oracle's beginnings, the story found in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (281–374), there was no <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">oracle</a> before Apollo came and killed the great she-dragon, Pytho's only inhabitant. This was apparently the Delphic myth of the sixth century.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The earth is the abode of the dead, therefore the earth-deity has power over the ghostly world: the shapes of <a href="/wiki/Dream" title="Dream">dreams</a>, which often foreshadowed the future, were supposed to ascend from the world below, therefore the earth-deity might acquire an oracular function, especially through the process of incubation, in which the consultant slept in a holy shrine with his ear upon the ground. That such conceptions attached to Gaia is shown by the records of her cults at Delphi, Athens, and Aegae. A recently discovered inscription speaks of a temple of Ge at Delphi... As regards Gaia, we also can accept it. It is confirmed by certain features in the latter Delphic divination, and also by the story of the Python.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Because the founding of the city was for the Greeks, as it had been for earlier cultures, primarily a religious act, Delphi naturally assumed charge of the new foundations; and especially in the early period of colonization, the Pythian Apollo gave specific advice that dispatched new colonies in every direction, under the aegis of Apollo. Few cities would undertake such an expedition without consulting the oracle. Thus at a moment when the growth of population might have led to congestion within the city, to random emigration, or to conflicts for arable land in the more densely populated regions, Delphi, willy-nilly, faced the problem and conducted a program of organized dispersal.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(13)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Citations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-13 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-13"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWells2000" class="citation book cs1">Wells, John C. (2000) [1990]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/longman-pronunciation-dictionary/page/209/mode/2up"><i>Longman Pronunciation Dictionary</i></a> (new ed.). Harlow, England: Longman. p. 209. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-582-36467-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-582-36467-7"><bdi>978-0-582-36467-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Longman+Pronunciation+Dictionary&rft.place=Harlow%2C+England&rft.pages=209&rft.edition=new&rft.pub=Longman&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-582-36467-7&rft.aulast=Wells&rft.aufirst=John+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flongman-pronunciation-dictionary%2Fpage%2F209%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrisk1960" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Frisk, Hjalmar (1960). "δελφίς, Δελφοί, δελφύς". <i>Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch</i>. Vol. Band I. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CE%AF%CF%82%2C+%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%AF%2C+%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%8D%CF%82&rft.btitle=Griechisches+Etymologisches+W%C3%B6rterbuch&rft.place=Heidelberg&rft.pub=Carl+Winter&rft.date=1960&rft.aulast=Frisk&rft.aufirst=Hjalmar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also given in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHenry_George_LiddellRobert_ScottHenry_Stuart_Jones1940" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott; Henry Stuart Jones (1940). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*d%3Aentry+group%3D18%3Aentry%3D*delfoi%2F">"Δελφοί"</a>. <i>A Greek-English Lexicon</i>. Perseus Digital Library.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%AF&rft.btitle=A+Greek-English+Lexicon&rft.pub=Perseus+Digital+Library&rft.date=1940&rft.au=Henry+George+Liddell&rft.au=Robert+Scott&rft.au=Henry+Stuart+Jones&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%253Atext%253A1999.04.0057%253Aalphabetic%2Bletter%253D%2Ad%253Aentry%2Bgroup%253D18%253Aentry%253D%2Adelfoi%252F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlice_MoutonIan_RutherfordIlya_Yakubovich2013" class="citation book cs1">Alice Mouton; Ian Rutherford; Ilya Yakubovich (2013). <i>Luwian Identities: Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean</i>. 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Le site,</i> Paris 1991</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Broad" title="William Broad">Broad, William J.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oracle00will"><i>The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind its Lost Secrets</i></a>, New York : Penguin, 2006. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59-420081-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-59-420081-5">1-59-420081-5</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurkert1985" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Burkert" title="Walter Burkert">Burkert, Walter</a> (1985). <i>Greek Religion</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Greek+Religion&rft.date=1985&rft.aulast=Burkert&rft.aufirst=Walter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Connelly, Joan Breton, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/portraitofpriest00conn"><i>Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece</i></a>, Princeton University Press, 2007. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0691127468" title="Special:BookSources/0691127468">0691127468</a></li> <li>Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018) "Ancient Evil"</li> <li>Dempsey, T., Reverend, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4Cj0ueSqyVQC"><i>The Delphic oracle, its early history, influence and fall</i></a>, Oxford: B.H. 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"Pindar's Paean 8 and the birth of the myth of the first temples of Delphi". <i>Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa</i>. <b>62</b> (1): 78–123.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Acta+Classica%3A+Proceedings+of+the+Classical+Association+of+South+Africa&rft.atitle=Pindar%27s+Paean+8+and+the+birth+of+the+myth+of+the+first+temples+of+Delphi&rft.volume=62&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=78-123&rft.date=2019&rft.aulast=Harissis&rft.aufirst=H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, <i>The Histories</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mcllibrary.org/Hesiod/hymns.html">Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKase1970" class="citation thesis cs1">Kase, Edward W. (1970). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3466&context=luc_theses"><i>A Study of the Role of Krisa in the Mycenaean Era</i></a> (Master's Thesis). Loyola University. Docket 2467.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=A+Study+of+the+Role+of+Krisa+in+the+Mycenaean+Era&rft.inst=Loyola+University&rft.date=1970&rft.aulast=Kase&rft.aufirst=Edward+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fecommons.luc.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D3466%26context%3Dluc_theses&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Kolonia, R., <i>The Archaeological Museum of Delphi,</i> Athens 2006</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLiritzisCastro2013" class="citation journal cs1">Liritzis, I; Castro, Β (2013). "Delphi and Cosmovision: Apollo's absence at the land of the hyperboreans and the time for consulting the oracle". <i>Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage</i>. <b>16</b> (2): 184–206. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013JAHH...16..184L">2013JAHH...16..184L</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3724%2FSP.J.1440-2807.2013.02.04">10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2013.02.04</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:220659867">220659867</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Astronomical+History+and+Heritage&rft.atitle=Delphi+and+Cosmovision%3A+Apollo%27s+absence+at+the+land+of+the+hyperboreans+and+the+time+for+consulting+the+oracle&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=184-206&rft.date=2013&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A220659867%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3724%2FSP.J.1440-2807.2013.02.04&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2013JAHH...16..184L&rft.aulast=Liritzis&rft.aufirst=I&rft.au=Castro%2C+%CE%92&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLloyd-Jones1976" class="citation journal cs1">Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (1976). "The Delphic Oracle". <i>Greece & Rome</i>. <b>23</b> (1): 60–73. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0017383500018283">10.1017/S0017383500018283</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162187662">162187662</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Greece+%26+Rome&rft.atitle=The+Delphic+Oracle&rft.volume=23&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=60-73&rft.date=1976&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0017383500018283&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A162187662%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Lloyd-Jones&rft.aufirst=Hugh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Manas, John Helen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W9300nUf4uMC"><i>Divination, ancient and modern</i></a>, New York, Pythagorean Society, 1947.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMiller2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_G._Miller" title="Stephen G. Miller">Miller, Stephen G.</a> (2004). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ancientgreekathl00mill"><i>Ancient Greek Athletics</i></a></span>. New Haven and London: <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780300100839" title="Special:BookSources/9780300100839"><bdi>9780300100839</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ancient+Greek+Athletics&rft.place=New+Haven+and+London&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=9780300100839&rft.aulast=Miller&rft.aufirst=Stephen+G.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fancientgreekathl00mill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParke1939" class="citation book cs1">Parke, Herbert William (1939). <i>A history of the Delphic oracle</i>. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+history+of+the+Delphic+oracle&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Basil+Blackwell&rft.date=1939&rft.aulast=Parke&rft.aufirst=Herbert+William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Petrakos, B. <i>Delph,</i> Athens 1977</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> "Lives"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rohde" title="Erwin Rohde">Rohde, Erwin</a>, <i>Psyche</i>, 1925.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oskar_Seyffert_(classical_scholar)" title="Oskar Seyffert (classical scholar)">Seyffert, Oskar</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ancientlibrary.com/seyffert/index.html">"Dictionary of Classical Antiquities"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090225171700/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/seyffert/index.html">Archived</a> 2009-02-25 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, London: W. Glaisher, 1895.</li> <li>Spiller, Henry A., John R. Hale, and Jelle Z. de Boer. "The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory." <i>Clinical Toxicology</i> 40.2 (2000) 189–196.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Litchfield_West" title="Martin Litchfield West">West, Martin Litchfield</a>, <i>The Orphic Poems</i>, 1983. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-814854-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-814854-2">0-19-814854-2</a>.</li></ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(15)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-15 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-15"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdornato2008" class="citation journal cs1">Adornato, G (2008). "Delphic Enigmas? The Γέλας ἀνάσσων, Polyzalos, and the Charioteer Statue". <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i>. <b>112</b> (1): 29–55. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3764%2Faja.112.1.29">10.3764/aja.112.1.29</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:157508659">157508659</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Journal+of+Archaeology&rft.atitle=Delphic+Enigmas%3F+The+%CE%93%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%82+%E1%BC%80%CE%BD%CE%AC%CF%83%CF%83%CF%89%CE%BD%2C+Polyzalos%2C+and+the+Charioteer+Statue&rft.volume=112&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=29-55&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3764%2Faja.112.1.29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A157508659%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Adornato&rft.aufirst=G&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Davies, J. K. (1998). Finance, Administrations, and Realpolitik: The Case of Fourth-Century Delphi. In M<i>odus Operandi: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Rickman.</i> Edited by M. Austin, J. Harries, and C. Smith, 1–14. London: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 71.</li> <li>Davies, John. (2007). "The Origins of the Festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia." In <i>Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire.</i> Edited by Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan, 47–69. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGiangiulio2015" class="citation book cs1">Giangiulio, Maurizio (2015). "Collective Identities, imagined past, and Delphi". In Foxhall, Lin; Gehrke, Hans-Joachim; Luraghi, Nino (eds.). <i>Intentional History : Spinning Time in Ancient Greece</i>. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 121–136. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-515-11288-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-515-11288-8"><bdi>978-3-515-11288-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Collective+Identities%2C+imagined+past%2C+and+Delphi&rft.btitle=Intentional+History+%3A+Spinning+Time+in+Ancient+Greece.&rft.place=Stuttgart&rft.pages=121-136&rft.pub=Franz+Steiner+Verlag&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-3-515-11288-8&rft.aulast=Giangiulio&rft.aufirst=Maurizio&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Kindt, Julia. (2016). <i>Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece. Cambridge Classical Studies.</i> Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaurizio1997" class="citation journal cs1">Maurizio, Lisa (1997). "Delphic Oracles as Oral Performances: Authenticity and Historical Evidence". <i>Classical Antiquity</i>. <b>16</b> (2): 308–334. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F25011067">10.2307/25011067</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25011067">25011067</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Classical+Antiquity&rft.atitle=Delphic+Oracles+as+Oral+Performances%3A+Authenticity+and+Historical+Evidence&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=308-334&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F25011067&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F25011067%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Maurizio&rft.aufirst=Lisa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcInerney2011" class="citation journal cs1">McInerney, Jeremy (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fpallas.1948">"Delphi and Phokis: A Network Theory Approach"</a>. <i>Pallas</i>. <b>87</b> (87): 95–106. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fpallas.1948">10.4000/pallas.1948</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Pallas&rft.atitle=Delphi+and+Phokis%3A+A+Network+Theory+Approach&rft.volume=87&rft.issue=87&rft.pages=95-106&rft.date=2011&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.4000%2Fpallas.1948&rft.aulast=McInerney&rft.aufirst=Jeremy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.4000%252Fpallas.1948&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcInerney1997" class="citation journal cs1">McInerney, Jeremy (1997). "Parnassus, Delphi, and the Thyiades". <i>Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies</i>. <b>38</b> (3): 263–284.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Greek%2C+Roman+and+Byzantine+Studies&rft.atitle=Parnassus%2C+Delphi%2C+and+the+Thyiades&rft.volume=38&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=263-284&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=McInerney&rft.aufirst=Jeremy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADelphi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Morgan, Catherine. (1990). <i>Athletes and Oracles. The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century BC.</i> Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.</li> <li>Partida, Elena C. (2002). <i>The Treasuries at Delphi: An Architectural Study.</i> Jonsered, Denmark: Paul Åströms.</li> <li>Scott, Michael, <i>Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World</i> (Princeton, NJ: <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University_Press" title="Princeton University Press">Princeton University Press</a>, 2014). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-15081-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-15081-9">978-0-691-15081-9</a></li> <li>Scott, Michael. (2010). <i>Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Periods.</i> Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_K._G._Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert K. G. Temple">Temple, Robert K.G.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.robert-temple.com/papers/Fables_Delphi.pdf">"Fables, Riddles, and Mysteries of Delphi"</a>, <i>Proceedings of 4th Philosophical Meeting on Contemporary Problems</i>, No 4, 1999 (Athens, Greece) In Greek and English.</li> <li>Weir, Robert G. (2004). <i>Roman Delphi and its Pythian games. BAR Series 1306</i>. Oxford: Hadrian.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="5th-century_evidence">5th-century evidence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: 5th-century evidence" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <ul><li>Petrides, P., 2010, <i>La céramique protobyzantine de Delphes. Une production et son contexte</i>, École française d’Athènes, Fouilles de Delphes V, Monuments figurés 4, Paris – Athènes.</li> <li>Petrides, P., Déroche, V., Badie, A., 2014,<i>Delphes de l’Antiquité tardive. Secteur au Sud-est du Péribole, École française d’Athènes,</i> Fouilles de Delphes II, Topographie et Architecture 15, Paris-Athènes.</li> <li>Petrides, P., 1997, «Delphes dans l’Antiquité tardive : première approche topographique et céramologique», BCH 121, pp. 681–695.</li> <li>Petrides, P., 2003, «Αteliers de potiers protobyzantins à Delphes », in Χ. ΜΠΑΚΙΡΤΖΗΣ (ed.), 7ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Μεσαιωνικής Κεραμικής της Μεσογείου, Θεσσαλονίκη 11-16 Οκτωβρίου 1999, Πρακτικά, Αθήνα, pp. 443–446.</li> <li>Petrides, P., 2005, «Un exemple d’architecture civile en Grèce : les maisons protobyzantines de Delphes (IVe–VIIe s.)», Mélanges Jean-Pierre Sodini, Travaux et Mémoires 15, Paris, pp. 193–204.</li> <li>Petrides, P., Demou, J., 2011, « La redécouverte de Delphes protobyzantine », Pallas 87, pp. 267–281.</li></ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(16)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Delphi&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon 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data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfos_(ciutat)" title="Delfos (ciutat) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Delfos (ciutat)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(arkiyolohiyang_dapit_sa_Gresya,_Central_Greece,_lat_38,48,_long_22,50)" title="Delphi (arkiyolohiyang dapit sa Gresya, Central Greece, lat 38,48, long 22,50) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Delphi (arkiyolohiyang dapit sa Gresya, Central Greece, lat 38,48, long 22,50)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfy" title="Delfy – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Delfy" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Delphi" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Delphi" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%AF" title="Δελφοί – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Δελφοί" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfos" title="Delfos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Delfos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfo" title="Delfo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Delfo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfos" title="Delfos – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Delfos" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%81%DB%8C_(%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1)" title="دلفی (شهر) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دلفی (شهر)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphes" title="Delphes – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Delphes" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deilfe" title="Deilfe – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Deilfe" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfos" title="Delfos – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Delfos" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%A1%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AB%E0%AB%80" title="ડેલ્ફી – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="ડેલ્ફી" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B8%ED%8F%AC%EC%9D%B4" title="델포이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="델포이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A5%D5%AC%D6%86%D5%AB" title="Դելֆի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դելֆի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80" title="डेल्फी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="डेल्फी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delf%C3%AD" title="Delfí – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Delfí" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99" title="דלפי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דלפי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D" title="დელფო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დელფო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%8B" title="Дельфы – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Дельфы" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delf%C3%AE_(bajar)" title="Delfî (bajar) – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Delfî (bajar)" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(urbs_Graeciae)" title="Delphi (urbs Graeciae) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Delphi (urbs Graeciae)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfai" title="Delfai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Delfai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphoi" title="Delphoi – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Delphoi" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B8" title="Делфи – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Делфи" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BF" title="ഡെൽഫി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഡെൽഫി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Delphi" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80,_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B8" title="डेल्फी, ग्रीस – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="डेल्फी, ग्रीस" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Delphi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(Griekenland)" title="Delphi (Griekenland) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Delphi (Griekenland)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9D%E3%82%A4" title="デルポイ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デルポイ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delf%C3%AD" title="Delfí – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Delfí" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A8lfes" title="Dèlfes – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Dèlfes" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfa" title="Delfa – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Delfa" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%81%DB%8C" title="ڈیلفی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ڈیلفی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfy" title="Delfy – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Delfy" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfos" title="Delfos – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Delfos" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi,_Grecia" title="Delphi, Grecia – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Delphi, Grecia" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%8B" title="Дельфы – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Дельфы" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi,_Greece" title="Delphi, Greece – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Delphi, Greece" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%8A%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="ڊيلفي جو مندر – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="ڊيلفي جو مندر" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfy" title="Delfy – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Delfy" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B8" title="Делфи – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Делфи" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfoi" title="Delfoi – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Delfoi" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Delphi" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF_(%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D)" title="தெல்பி (நகரம்) – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="தெல்பி (நகரம்)" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B5" title="เดลฟี – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เดลฟี" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi" title="Delfi – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Delfi" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B8" title="Дельфи – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Дельфи" 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