Julian the Apostate ( 359-61 ) tried to revive the Delphic oracle, but failed.

There was a tradition that the Delphic oracle was consulted as early as the period of the kings of Rome during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.

In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.

People consulted the Delphic oracle on everything from important matters of public policy to personal affairs.

Inside was the adyton, the centre of the Delphic oracle and seat of Pythia.

* Dempsey, T., Reverend, The Delphic oracle, its early history, influence and fall, Oxford: B. H.

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of responses, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

* Eloise Hart, " The Delphic oracle "

When Pausanias visited Thebes in Boeotia, in the second century AD, he was shown Hector's tomb and was told that the bones had been transported to Thebes according to a Delphic oracle.

Even after Homer had located Hector in Troy for all time, the Thebans held on to their hero, and the Delphic oracle provided the necessary sanction.

One, as early as Thucydides, reported in Plutarch, the Suda and John Tzetzes, states that the Delphic oracle warned Hesiod that he would die in Nemea, and so he fled to Locris, where he was killed at the local temple to Nemean Zeus, and buried there.

Desiring to reconquer his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for " the third fruit ", ( or " the third crop ") and then enter Peloponnesus by " a narrow passage by sea ".

Xenophon writes that he had asked the veteran Socrates for advice on whether to go with Cyrus, and that Socrates referred him to the divinely inspired Delphic oracle.

The Delphic oracle was established in the 8th century BCE.

During this period the Delphic Oracle was the most prestigious and authoritative oracle among the Greeks.

The earliest account of the origin of the Delphic oracle is provided in the Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo, which recent scholarship dates within a narrow range, ca.

* Dempsey, T., Reverend, The Delphic oracle, its early history, influence and fall, Oxford, B. H.

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of responses, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-03360-4 ( 1978 )

Before setting out he turned to the Delphic oracle and the oracle of Amphiaraus to inquire whether he should pursue this campaign and whether he should also seek an alliance.

Being desirous of reconquering his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for " the third fruit ," and then enter Peloponnesus by " a narrow passage by sea.

The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary prophetic figure who was said to have given prophecies at Delphi shortly after the Trojan War.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

Lemmon attended Phillips Academy ( Class of 1943 ) and Harvard University ( Class of 1947 ), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs-becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club-as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.

Photograph of the original stone at Delphi containing the second of the two Delphic Hymns | hymns to Apollo.

It was not long before the Pallantides ' hopes of succeeding the apparently childless Aegeus would be lost if they did not get rid of Theseus ( the Pallantides were the sons of Pallas and nephews of King Aegeus, who were then living at the royal court in the sanctuary of Delphic Apollo ).

Huxley observes, " If the hymn to ( Delphic ) Apollo conveys a historical message, it is above all that there were once Cretan priests at Delphi.

The priestess at Delphi was the " Delphic Bee ".

The Pythian Games ( Delphic Games ) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held every four years at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.

The Castalian Spring, in the ravine between the Phaedriades at Delphi, is where all visitors to Delphi — the contestants in the Pythian Games, and especially suppliants who came to consult the Delphic Oracle — stopped to wash their hair ; and where Roman poets came to receive poetic inspiration.

He presided at the Delphic oracle, which existed in the cult center for his mother, Gaia, " Earth ," Pytho being the place name that was substituted for the earlier Krisa.

One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to utilise this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle.

* Pythia: The famous Delphic oracle, she foretells the triumph of the sausage-seller early in the play ( line 220 ) and her words confirm Cleon's defeat at the end of the play ( 1229, 1273 ).

His lithograph Head was shown at the 1930 exhibition “ Mexican Artists and Artists of the Mexican School ” at The Delphic Studios in New York City.

According to Herodotus the Bacchiadae heard two prophecies from the Delphic oracle that the son of Eëtion would overthrow their dynasty, and they planned to kill the baby once it was born ; however, Herodotus says that the newborn smiled at each of the men sent to kill it, and none of them could go through with the plan.

According to a speech that Aeschylus, in Eumenides, puts in the mouth of the Delphic priestess herself, she received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis: " Phoebe in this succession seems to be his private invention ," D. S.

Alternatively the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, sometimes already ancient during the classical epochs of Greece or Rome, such as a reference to the mythological place of birth or numinous presence at a specific sanctuary: sacrifice might be offered on one and the same occasion to Pythian Apollo ( Apollo Pythios ) and Delphic Apollo ( Apollo Delios ).

* The eternal flame that was kept burning in the inner hearth of the Temple of Delphic Apollo at Delphi in Greece until Delphi was sacked by the Roman general Sulla in 87 BC.

The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary figure who made prophecies in the sacred precinct of Apollo at Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.

Socrates says, " But I have no leisure for them at all ; and the reason, my friend, is this: I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself ; so it seems to me ridiculous, when I do not yet know that, to investigate irrelevant things.

Both Delphic Hymns were addressed to Apollo, and were found inscribed on stone fragments from the south outer wall of the Athenian treasury at Delphi in 1893 by a French archaeologist ( Weil 1893 ; Reinach 1893 ).