Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big ...

According to tradition, the oracle at Delphi worked this way: In an underground room in the temple of Apollo, a specially trained woman would sit on a tripod placed over a fissure in the bedrock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian artist Camillo Miola painted this scene depicting the ancient Oracle of Delphi in 1880. The oracle was the most revered ...

The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.

Greek mythology tells how Zeus released two eagles at opposite ends of the world and they met at Delphi. Thus it was considered by the ancient Greeks to be at the very centre of the world. Over time ...

Built around a sacred spring, it was considered the centre of the world. People came to have their questions about the future answered by the Pythia, the priestess at the Temple of Apollo.

Bienen and Communication senior Mya Vandegrift’s “Pythia” premieres as a fusion of opera and musical theatre Thursday. As Communication junior and producer Nora James Eikner describes, the performance ...