CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Road Rage, Laius, Tiresias
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Look up founding of rome (romus vs remis and the birds) I can"t pay you back today, not enough dots on a liver. Used things to try and predict the future. Also used oracles to predict the future. Look up: there you can ask personal questions. Should i go on a trip: or civil questions: should the city go to war etc. A picture of her sitting on a three legged chair (used for sacrifice but also prizes): the theory was that there were fumes there that made people high. However, more recent geological excavations proved this untrue. Another explanation is that she chewed enough basil leaves to get her stoned: pythia was an illiteral young girl from the village. And she is told that the god will enter you and he will speak to you. So this worked on her imagination and she went crazy and would say stuff. The greeks were completely certain that it would work.
