History of Delphi
?Zeus according to the Greek legend once wished to determine the exact centre of the earth.? So he released two eagles from opposite ends of the world.? Flying towards each other they met precisely over Delphi.?[1]? So, according to this legend and historians, Delphi was known as the center of the world to the Ancient Greeks, starting in the 6th century BCE.?
? Excavations have shown that the Mycenaeans (in Greece from 1600-1200 BCE) were probably the first to inhabit Delphi in the 14th BCE, and it has continuously been inhabited since then.[2]? The famous ancient author Homer even spoke of Pytho, the primitive name for Delphi, in his book, the Iliad.? In the last third of the 8th century BCE, Delphi emerged in Greek religious history.[3]? It was first founded as a Greek colony, and all new Greek colonies at that time needed new temples and sanctuaries of gods and heroes built so the inhabitants of the city could worship their numerous gods.[4]?
Tradition says that Pytho (Delphi) was originally the sacred ground of the goddess Ge, and a dragon named Python protected it.? Apollo, the god of light, poetry, music and prophecy, slayed Python by shooting numerous arrows into him.[5]? The city was said to be founded and built because Apollo wished it after his accomplishment, but that could just have been a way for Delphi, which does not have a concrete past, to have a perfect picturesque conception.
Delphi did not become the center of the Greek world until after it joined the Amphictyonic League in the 7th century BCE.? This was a religious league that included many tribes of mainland Greece and surroundings.? These seemed to have been very prominent in Ancient times; there is proof of leagues of Calau...
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[12] Pomeroy, 203.
[13] Parke & Wormell, 214.
[14] Encyclopedia Britannica, 452.
[15] Encyclopedia Britannica, 452.
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[17] Britannica Junior Encyclopedia, Volume 5 D-E, (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc 1973), ?Delphi,? 67.
[18] Compton?s Encyclopedia 31st Edition: Volume 4 D-E, (Chicago, F.E. Compton & Company Publishers, 1952) ?Delphi,? 62.
[19] Compton?s Encyclopedia, 62.
[20] Britannica Junior, 67.
[21] Parke, 56.
[22] www.ancient-greece.org.
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[24] www.ancient-greece.org.
[25] Simon Price, Religion of the Ancient Greeks, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 60.
[26] Price, 60.
[27] Price, 75.
[28] www.ancient-greece.org.
Athens took over leadership of Greece in 487BC with the Delian League.With Sparta caught up in internal problems in the Peloponnese, and the war with the helots further stretching them, Athenian democracy was continuing to move up.
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...e that even if they are having a hard life, something beautiful will happen someday to take you out of that ugly and ordinary position, just like the arrival of the angel. Marquez demonstrates that even if someone is physically and/or mentally different, he always has beautiful aspects, just like the villagers described the old man as ugly but they called it “angel” which is a beautiful supernatural being. The story shows also that even in things we dislike or find gross, there is always something great and beautiful. Through these fictional devices, we can clearly see the theme of see the beauty in the ugly and ordinary. This story should convince many people that even if they are going through tough moments in their life, they simply have to look from an outside point of view and they will find out that there is always something beautiful in the ugly and ordinary.
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It was the seat of the Delphic oracle, the most famous and most powerful of ancient Greece. The oracle originated in the worship of an earth-goddess, and later legend ascribed it to Gaea. It passed to Apollo; some stories say he won it by killing the Python, others that it descended to him peacefully through Themis and Phoebe. The Delphic oracle was the preeminent shrine of Apollo, but in winter, when Apollo was absent among the Hyperboreans, it was sacred to Dionysus, who was said to be buried there. The oracle was housed in the great temple to Apollo, first built in the 6th cent. B.C. (it was destroyed and rebuilt at least twice). The oracular messages were spoken by a priestess seated on a golden tripod, who uttered sounds in a frenzied trance; they were interpreted to the questioner by a priest, who usually spoke in verse. Delphi was unique in its universal position in the otherwise...
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If I ask you to picture an angel, what do you see? Is it a vibrant white, majestically dressed individual with lush and strong wings who commands reverence with his presence? What does this ethereal creature stand for? Righteousness? Protector of good and the purest form of a celestial being besides God? If you have read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” then you may have been introduced to a conflicting image of an angel. This angel is in no way similar to the one described above. Actually, we are not even sure he is an angel. What we do know after reading this story is that the creature presented represents the overwhelming need of humans to understand and interpret every facet of their lives. The angel does not fit the general consensus of what an angel is and leaves human expectations unmet. This story embodies the nature of humans to explain, categorize, and label any affair that is not already so.
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