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As the Oracle of Delphi was sacred to the god Apollo, so did the mountain itself become associated with Apollo.
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Oracle and Delphi
As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.
Apollo gives an order through the Oracle at Delphi that Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover.
Byzas had consulted the Oracle at Delphi to ask where to make his new city.
The site of Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple plateaux / terraces along the slope of Mount Parnassus, and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient Oracle.
This spring flowed toward the temple but disappeared beneath, creating a cleft which emitted vapors that caused the Oracle at Delphi to give her prophecies.
The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind its Lost Secrets, New York: Penguin, 2006.
* The New York Times, March 19, 2002: " Fumes and Visions Were Not a Myth for Oracle at Delphi "
When the Emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi about Homer, the Pythia proclaimed that he was Ithacan, the son of Epikaste and Telemachus, from the Odyssey.
When Cleisthenes divided the ancient Athenians into new demes for voting, he consulted the Oracle of Delphi about what heroes he should name each division after.
After his madness had been cured with hellebore by Antikyreus, the founder of Antikyra, he realized what he had done and fled to the Oracle of Delphi.
The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).
Herodotus says that a " Midas son of Gordias " made an offering to the Oracle of Delphi of a royal throne " from which he made judgments " that " was well worth seeing ", and that this Midas was the only foreigner to make an offering to Delphi before Gyges of Lydia.
Some historians believe this Midas donated the throne that Herodotus says was offered to the Oracle of Delphi by " Midas son of Gordias " ( see above ).
The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets.
The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi.
Socrates began to engage in such discussions with his fellow Athenians after his friend from youth, Chaerephon, visited the Oracle of Delphi, which confirmed that no man in Greece was wiser than Socrates.
The Pythia ( pronounced or, ), commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi, was the priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.
* Delphi method, a structured communication technique, unrelated to the Oracle of Delphi.
The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets, New York, Penguin Press, ISBN 978-0-14-303859-7 ( 2007 ); hardcover edition The Oracle: the lost secrets and hidden message of ancient Delphi, Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-081-5 ( 2006 )
Oracle and was
The 33rd America's Cup Race was won by Golden Gate Yacht Club racing team BMW Oracle, founded by Larry Ellison.
This company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006, which continues to develop and sell Berkeley DB.
The original service was called 4-Tel and was provided in collaboration with Oracle.
In 1993, with Oracle losing its franchise to Teletext Ltd, the running of 4-Tel was taken over by Intelfax, and in 2002 was renamed FourText.
The Oracle exerted considerable influence throughout the Greek world, and she was consulted before all major undertakings: wars, the founding of colonies, and so forth.
A major reorganization was initiated, but was interrupted by the Mithridatic Wars and the wars of Sulla who took many rich offerings from the Oracle.
The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperor Theodosius I in AD 395.
Only Larry Ellison's Oracle started from a different chain, based on IBM's papers on System R, and beat IBM to market when the first version was released in 1978.
Rhetorically Eusebius records the Oracle as saying " The just on Earth ..." These impious, Diocletian was informed by members of the court, could only refer to the Christians of the Empire.
In these years he recovered the manuscript that he and Thomas Young had worked in his youth from Young's widow, who was living in Albany, and began to develop it into the work that was published in 1785 as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man.
The Baltimore-based Black Oracle ( 1969 – 1978 ) from writer-turned-John Waters repertory member George Stover was a small zine that evolved into the larger-format Cinemacabre.
One of Barrett's pupils, John Parkin, created his own handwritten grimoire, The Grand Oracle of Heaven, or, The Art of Divine Magic, although it was never actually published, largely because Britain at the time was at war with France, and grimoires were commonly associated with the French.
Unbeknownst to him, the Oracle was guided by Hera.
As penalty for a murder, imposed by Xenoclea, the Delphic Oracle, Heracles was to serve as her slave for a year.
From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun, until the company merged with Oracle and he resigned his position with the company.
Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.
Apollo slew it but had to do penance and be cleansed afterwards, since though Python was a child of Gaia, it was necessary that the ancient Delphic Oracle passed to the protection of the new god.
Oracle and sacred
Peleiades ( Greek:, " doves ") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona.
The Oracle answered: " Iphitos and the people of Elis must declare a sacred truce for the duration of the game and revive the Olympic Games ".
Sinbad heads to a mysterious island to seek the help of a wise Oracle, who tells them the location of the four sacred gems of Basra.
Traditional prayer by Izumo Kokuso, wedding ceremonies of believers, and the performances of sacred dance to ancient Japanese music involve the Oracle with 240 mats.
Then Aeschines, the Athenian deputy, contradicted the Amfissians, introducing their illegal actions in the sacred lands of the Oracle of Delphi before the Amphictyonic League, which called Philip II of Macedon to interfere.
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