Delphic
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What’s more, the histrionic grandeur she imbues the scene with overshadows the dramatic revelation that follows: the reading of the Delphic oracle’s judgment that she is indeed innocent, and Leontes is “a jealous tyrant.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
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
‘Yes, but I’m the god of many things! Poetry, music, the Delphic Oracle -’ He broke into a sob and covered his mouth with his fist.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
