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Omphalos at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Following the establishment of the sanctuary and temple, Apollo then intercepted Minoan sailors from Knossos on their way to Pylos intending to make them priest at Delphi. [55] In doing so, Apollo took the form of a dolphin, boarded the ship, and the sailors were awed into fearful submission to the ...
Between the Bouleuterion and Sibyl's Rock in the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi there is a narrow pass leading to the fountain which the dragon Python was supposedly guarding. Apollo killed the dragon and then left for the land of the Hyperboreans in order to be expiated from the murder. This action signifies in mythology the transition from the ...
The highest part of the Sacred Way and the area around the temple of Apollo in Delphi was one of the most prominent positions in the sanctuary and was built at a relatively late date. To the right there is a square situated at a height of 2.5 meters above the temple's level, on a specially made terrace, constructed under order of the king ...
Pausanias writing in the 2nd century AD, says the oldest contest at Delphi was the singing of the Hymn to Apollo, god of arts and music. The first Games run by the Delphic Amphictyony , which he dates to the third year of the forty-eighth Olympiad (i.e. 586 BC) featured contests of singing accompanied by cithara (a lyre), and separate contests ...
Next to a portico built by the Arcadians along the Sacred Way in the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, the visitor would see a semi-circular pedestal dedicated by the Argives after 369 B.C., to stress their contribution to the building of the city of Messene, the capital of the liberated Messenians.
However this was not original to Delphi, as there were many paths that led to and from different levels of the temple's different terrace levels. [1] The pathway was constructed in modern times with reused pieces of stone from around the Apollo sanctuary. The Delphi Archaeological Museum
Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia (1835/1845), as imagined by Eugène Delacroix.. Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi.
Base of the statue of the Corcyrean Bull at Delphi. On the right hand side, straight after the entrance to the sanctuary of Delphi, one sees the base of the bull that the Corcyraeans dedicated at about 480 B.C., in order to commemorate an exceptionally good catch of tuna fish. The statue was made by the sculptor Theopropus from Aegina.