Delphic

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Called “The Four Sibyls,” the frescoes depict the female seers of ancient Greek and Roman mythology, including the Roman, Cumaean, Erythraean and Delphic sibyls.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025

Pythagoras himself was said to have been inspired to study philosophy by the Delphic priestess Themistoclea.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The multiple frame photography and video works, lavishly textured and devotionally rendered, operate as Delphic objects, portals to nature.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2021

Its king, Oedipus, desperate to understand why the gods have called such a plague down upon his realm, sends an emissary to the famed Delphic Oracle to find out.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2020

He had left his home, Corinth, where he was held to be the son of the King, Polybus, and the reason for his self-exile was another Delphic oracle.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton