The Oracle of Delphi
The Ancients
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The Pythiai and the Oracle
The Pythiai's ability to say things in hexameter is quite an achievement, says Gart. And so it elevates the utterance of the God to put it in this very dignified rhythmic sort of utterance. So even when they were consulting with the Pythia, with the oracle, there would be these other figures, as you say, perhaps doing the hexameter, listening in alsoThere are at least four or five profiteys, prophets, and a number of a hosioi, just priests, who are officiants. The nameless underlings are keeping the cooperation running while the Pythia is prophesying and the profiteys are
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