Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered ...
The Oracle of Apollo’s typical morning for a day of prophecy during the time of the empire would consist of getting ready to prophecy for the hundreds of people waiting for her. She would wake up, ...
This led the Greeks to deem them the Oracle of Memnon (an Ethiopian king in Greek mythology), to which they and later the Romans made pilgrimages. When the Roman emperor Septimius Severus restored ...