The seeming oxymoron of the historical detective novel often setin eras before police or...Miller, Sarah Bryan
Helen of Troy, Hippocrates Ancient Greek Physician, Homer the Poet, the Meleager host of the Calydonian Boar Hunt, Menelaus King of Sparta, Midwives of Ancient Greece, Mizentius the Despiser of the Gods, Oedipus King of Thebes, Oracles of Ancient Greece, The Oracle of Delphi, Orion the ...
where students came from all over the Mediterranean world to learn at the great Asklepion. Hippocrates, the 5th century B.C. ‘father of medicine’, was from Cos and said to be a descendant of the god Asklepios himself.
The most famous and enduring such amphictyony, however, was the one that, originally from a distance, administered the affairs of the sanctuary of Delphi in central Greece. That sanctuary contained the most-famous, though not the oldest, Greek oracle (the oldest was at Dodona); oracles were...
There were many other oracles in Greece, but the Oracle at Delphi was the most famous, and everyone who could afford to consult the Oracle at Delphi preferred to do so. Of course, there was a long waiting period to consult the oracle (sometimes several months), and there were a number ...
That the Celtic force would cross from Europe into Asia to destroy the cities had been foretold by Phainnis [among the Chaonians] in her oracles a generation before the event took place: “Then having crossed the narrow strait of the Hellespont / the dest...
The Oracle of Delphi and The Delphic Commandments (explanations, symbols, Plato and Heraclitus) The 5 Ages of Man and Atlantis (Chronologies, Explanations and Mythology) Video Channel Biographies Democritus (c. 460 – 370 BC) Democritus was an influential Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primar...
Interstate rivalry expressed by competitive activity at the Panhellenic sanctuaries is detailed in the brilliant book by Catherine Morgan, Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century BC (1990, reissued 2007). Gabriel Herman, Ritualised Friendship and the ...
significant dreams are broken down into symbolic dreams, the meaning of which cannot be understood without interpretation; the horama, or visions, which predict future events; and the chrematismos, or oracles, which reveal without symbolism what will or will not happen, or what should or should...
Apollo is thought to inspire the priestess of Delphi to pronounce oracles. Apollo is associated with the laurel, which is used in certain games to crown the victor. He is a god of music, prophecy, and later, the sun. 02 of 15