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Delcourt Marie

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Marie Delcourt: The Oracle of Delphi

Oracles were numerous in Greece, but people did not actually come to them, as is often said, to find out what awaited them in the future, but to be instructed on what was best to do for their own welfare. They came back from the oracle with advice on how to act in a certain case, and they followed that advice. Its effectiveness was based on the sanctity of the very place where, under long-forgotten circumstances, a sign appeared clearly enough to the people by which a deity announced that it was there that he intended to address them. Out of all these selected places, one rocky terraced slope in Phocis has acquired exceptional significance in Greece, and is unique in world history. For nearly a thousand years, people have come to Delphi to ask the oracle for advice, either on their own behalf or on behalf of a community that referred them there. The people of that time were so keenly interested in the answers, and they tried to retell and record them, but not to preserve them devoutly, but because they considered the circumstances that accompanied them to be miraculous. Although prophetic sanctuaries were numerous and although discoveries were made near almost all temples, the prophecies from Delphi are almost the only ones that have reached us.

 

 

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