The Oracle of Delphi
The Ancients
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The Universal Cache of the Greek Sanctuary
Garrett: It's a remarkable, if not quite ecumenical, feel, but certainly a universalizing idea that this Greek sanctuary can welcome anybody. And I should know that the Greeks thought that their gods were universal. They thought that the Egyptians, for example, worship the same gods by different names. There's this wonderful myth about how the gods fled the monster Tifaeus and assumed animal forms when they went to Egypt. Garrett: Yes, at Aihunum, it's now the border of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on the Oxus River,. They found the Delphi maxims inscribed in the gymnasium there.
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