CLAS 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mr. Tumnus, Homeric Hymns, Odysseus
6 Jul 2018
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Delphi- he was born on the island of delos, and he came to. Tripod and bow are both some of his symbols when shown in art. He was able to slay the dragon fairly easily as he was a good fighter and knew how to fight. An oracle is where people would go to ask questions about the future. The pythia: oracle and priestess of apollo, responded in. Gibberish to the people who came to ask for her advice, this was thought to be the way people talk when they are being connected to the divine world. She was sitting on a tripod and may have been sitting over some sort of chasm, breathing in some fumes that helped her to get in touch with apollo. This gibberish was interpreted by males greeks and was put into a poetic metre. The pythia was widely consulted, there are tablets.
