Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big ...

According to tradition, the oracle at Delphi worked this way: In an underground room in the temple of Apollo, a specially trained woman would sit on a tripod placed over a fissure in the bedrock ...

THE BEAUTY OF travel has always been its unpredictability but, in the Covid era, unpredictable has taken on new meaning. In November 2021, finding myself able to travel again and desperate to escape ...

Archaeological findings and architectural elements provide evidence that a sun worship cult existed at Delphi.

It was at one time one of the most sacred shrines in the world, and was consulted by kings, generals and emperors. It accumulated troves of wealth, which were from time to time plundered, but often ...

The TV show Percy Jackson and the Olympians closely follows the plot of the books, including the role of the Oracle of Delphi, who provides riddle-like prophecies to guide the characters on their ...

Built around a sacred spring, it was considered the centre of the world. People came to have their questions about the future answered by the Pythia, the priestess at the Temple of Apollo.

Balanchine regarded Apollo as his artistic coming of age. He said that through the creation of this work, he learned he could "dare not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate. . . to the one ...

WE are inclined, and not without reason, to regard the story of the Greeks, in spite of their many priceless achievements for mankind, as in a sense tragic, after all. Though some of the Hellenic ...