The Prophecies of the Delphic Oracle, aside from their mystery and marvel, offer an ideal opportunity to describe the extraordinary culture and history of Ancient Greece.
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The Delphic Oracle sometimes gave riddling advice designed to be provocative if also non-committal. Impelling the pilgrim to think deeply and ponder choices earnestly was a paramount goal here.
Much of the time, however, the Pythia priestess – voicing a supposed pronouncement of the god Apollo – offered straightforward, ethical advice. I emphasize that the Delphic Oracle’s advice was ethical in nature, and wise.
To further sustain those who doubt any supernatural element in Delphi’s oracular process, know that the temple employed very intelligent people who received (and surely stored) a vast amount of information about people and events inside and even outside of Greece.
Yet for those with a mind open to parapsychology and the possibility of reality far beyond our current conception of it, Oracle number 5 lends support to all of you. And some of the prophecies are simply uncanny.
Whatever the truth of the matter, for 1000 years Delphi was a very special place on earth, a place it earned with astonishing wisdom.
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Myron Stagman is a Shakespearean and Classical research scholar, a doctor of English Literature from San Francisco, California. He heartily suggests that everyone, for reasons of personal pleasure as well as cultural enhancement, should become familiar with Ancient Greece, that extraordinary place and time in world history.
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