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Delphi Part 2: Sacred Wars, Sacred Stones, & The Silence Of Apollo
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Primary Sources
Primary Sources
Aeschylus. Eumenides.
Cicero. On Divination.
Herodotus. The Histories.
Homeric Hymn to Apollo.
Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 10.
Pindar. Pythian Odes.
Plutarch. Life of Lycurgus.
Plutarch. “On the E at Delphi.” In Moralia.
Plutarch. “The Obsolescence of Oracles.” In Moralia.
Plutarch. “The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse.” In Moralia.
Strabo. Geography.
Official and Reference Sources
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “Excavations.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “History of Delphi.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “Mythological Versions of the Foundation of the Oracle.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Sphinx of the Naxians.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Temple of Apollo.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Treasury of the Siphnians.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Delphi.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Delphic Oracle.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Hieromnemon.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Python.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Pythian Games.”
UNESCO World Heritage Centre. “Archaeological Site of Delphi.”
Modern Scholarship
Chappell, Mike. “Delphi and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.” The Classical Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2006).
de Boer, Jelle Z., John R. Hale, and Henry A. Spiller. “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory.” Clinical Toxicology 40, no. 2 (2002).
Etiope, Giuseppe, et al. “The Geological Links of the Ancient Delphic Oracle.”
Fontenrose, Joseph. The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Forrest, W. G. “The First Sacred War.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 80 (1956).
Fragkaki, Maria. “The Great Rhetra.” Rosetta 17 (2015).
McInerney, Jeremy. “Parnassus, Delphi, and the Thyiades.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 38, no. 3 (1997).
Piccardi, Luigi. “Active Faulting at Delphi, Greece: Seismotectonic Remarks and a Hypothesis for the Geological Environment of a Myth.” Geology 28, no. 7 (2000).
Scott, Michael. Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Strolonga, Polyxeni. “The Foundation of the Oracle at Delphi in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51 (2011).
Music, Inscriptions, and Archaeology
Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Museum collections and interpretive materials.
The Delphic Hymns to Apollo.
École française d’Athènes. Fou
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Primary Sources
Primary Sources
Aeschylus. Eumenides.
Cicero. On Divination.
Herodotus. The Histories.
Homeric Hymn to Apollo.
Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book 10.
Pindar. Pythian Odes.
Plutarch. Life of Lycurgus.
Plutarch. “On the E at Delphi.” In Moralia.
Plutarch. “The Obsolescence of Oracles.” In Moralia.
Plutarch. “The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse.” In Moralia.
Strabo. Geography.
Official and Reference Sources
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “Excavations.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “History of Delphi.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “Mythological Versions of the Foundation of the Oracle.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Sphinx of the Naxians.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Temple of Apollo.”
Archaeological Site of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Treasury of the Siphnians.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Delphi.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Delphic Oracle.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Hieromnemon.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Python.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Pythian Games.”
UNESCO World Heritage Centre. “Archaeological Site of Delphi.”
Modern Scholarship
Chappell, Mike. “Delphi and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.” The Classical Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2006).
de Boer, Jelle Z., John R. Hale, and Henry A. Spiller. “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory.” Clinical Toxicology 40, no. 2 (2002).
Etiope, Giuseppe, et al. “The Geological Links of the Ancient Delphic Oracle.”
Fontenrose, Joseph. The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Forrest, W. G. “The First Sacred War.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 80 (1956).
Fragkaki, Maria. “The Great Rhetra.” Rosetta 17 (2015).
McInerney, Jeremy. “Parnassus, Delphi, and the Thyiades.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 38, no. 3 (1997).
Piccardi, Luigi. “Active Faulting at Delphi, Greece: Seismotectonic Remarks and a Hypothesis for the Geological Environment of a Myth.” Geology 28, no. 7 (2000).
Scott, Michael. Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Strolonga, Polyxeni. “The Foundation of the Oracle at Delphi in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51 (2011).
Music, Inscriptions, and Archaeology
Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Museum collections and interpretive materials.
The Delphic Hymns to Apollo.
École française d’Athènes. Fou