CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pythian Games, Typhon, Epinikion

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Delphi itself people woudl come from all over greek world to worship apollo, consult oracle, compete central temple, Sacred way leads to temple, full of dedications, treasuries to store cultic paraphenalia. Woman called the pythia supposedly: apollo pythia ( priests? if ranting gibberish) person seeking prophesy sitting over chasm, fumes rising? ambiguous. Pythian games once musical, later more like olympic games. Panhellenic vs. epichoric (rooted in place) first sacred war-- people displaced from temple (betw. 1: slaying dragon typhoeus challenges zeus dragon challenges apollo. Myth of previous owners (gaia or themis) dragon is protector of earlier oracles. Delphi-- trend toward panhellenism little isolated town hub of activity about apollo in the poem, it is a partial and idealized view of delphi sometimes literary and archaeological evidence disagree. Myth and poetry of panhellenic fests-- written for victors. Nemean used a myth that pertained to family of victor compared victor to deity celebrated, or important hero of the site.

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