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... Delphi , he consulted the oracle and was again ordered to kill Eriphyle . This he did , possibly with his brother's aid , and the Erinyes of his mother drove him mad . In this state he wandered first to the Arcadian court of his ...
... Delphi , he consulted the oracle and was again ordered to kill Eriphyle . This he did , possibly with his brother's aid , and the Erinyes of his mother drove him mad . In this state he wandered first to the Arcadian court of his ...
Page 63
... Delphi to take over the oracle . This oracle had originally belonged to Ge , or to Ge and Poseidon . More recently it had been in the hands of another earth - goddess , Themis , who , some say , willingly turned it over to Apollo . He ...
... Delphi to take over the oracle . This oracle had originally belonged to Ge , or to Ge and Poseidon . More recently it had been in the hands of another earth - goddess , Themis , who , some say , willingly turned it over to Apollo . He ...
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... Delphi . A city in Phocis . The city of Delphi , the principal religious center common to all Greeks , clung to the dizzyingly steep slopes of Mount Parnassus , with forbidding cliffs above it and a gulf beneath . Accounts of the ...
... Delphi . A city in Phocis . The city of Delphi , the principal religious center common to all Greeks , clung to the dizzyingly steep slopes of Mount Parnassus , with forbidding cliffs above it and a gulf beneath . Accounts of the ...
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