The Oracle of Delphi
The Ancients
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The Legacy of the Oracle
Alexander himself went to Delphi and he came on off day when the Oracle was not in session, but he didn't care who's Alexander. He physically dragged her to the tripod inside the temple and said pretty much prophesy. And she just said, he threw up her hand, said, you are invincible. And that was good enough for him. And he left. But we know that by his time, by Hadrian's time, by the second century BC, that Delphi was becoming more of a tourist attraction than anything else. Plutarch records that there were fewer and fewer people. The site retained some vitality till the great invasions of the fifth and sixth centuries.
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