(time index set to the Delphi segment)Mysteries of the Ancient World - Myths and Legends (at 43:15)
March 13, 2016 | Questar Entertainment
Posted on 12/30/2007 5:01:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Tradition attributed the prophetic inspiration of the powerful oracle to geologic phenomena: a chasm in the earth, a vapor that rose from it, and a spring... The ancient testimony, however, is widespread, and it comes from a variety of sources: historians such as Pliny and Diodorus, philosophers such as Plato, the poets Aeschylus and Cicero, the geographer Strabo, the travel writer Pausanias, and even a priest of Apollo who served at Delphi, the famous essayist and biographer Plutarch... in about 1900, a young English classicist named Adolphe Paul Oppe['s] opinions were so strongly expressed that his theory became the new orthodoxy... in 1950... French archaeologist Pierre Amandry added the further negative that only a volcanic area, which Delphi was not, could have produced a gas such as the one described in the classical sources... de Boer met another of us (Hale) at an archaeological site in Portugal where Hale, who is an archaeologist, sought de Boer's geological opinion on the evidence for earthquake damage at an ancient Roman villa. Over a bottle of wine, de Boer mentioned that he had seen the fault that ran under the temple at Delphi. Hale, who had learned the approved view as an undergraduate, contradicted him. But in the lively conversation that ensued, de Boer converted him... we traced the major east-west fault line, called the Delphi fault, that de Boer had observed during the earlier survey. Later we were to discover the exposed face of a second fault... which... ran northwest-southeast and cut across the Delphi fault at the oracle site. A line of springs that ran through the sanctuary and intersected the temple marked the location of the Kerna fault below the ancient terracing and the accumulated debris from rockslides.
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Saw an interesting segment about this on a Questar DVD I just picked up cheap. Lots of stuff about this on the web, I'll try to quote a few more below. |
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Tell to the king that the carven hall is fallen in decay;
Apollo has no chapel left, no prophesying bay,
No talking spring. The stream is dry that had so much to say.
(tr, reputed last words of the oracle)
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Oracle.htm
Nero was not worried when he heard
the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle.
“Let him fear the seventy three years.”
He still had ample time to enjoy himself.
He is thirty. More than sufficient
is the term the god allots him
to prepare for future perils.
Now he will return to Rome slightly tired,
but delightfully tired from this journey,
full of days of enjoyment —
at the theaters, the gardens, the gymnasia...
evenings at cities of Achaia...
Ah the delight of nude bodies, above all...
Thus fared Nero. And in Spain Galba
secretly assembles and drills his army,
the old man of seventy three.
[Constantinos Kavafis, Nero’s Term]
very, very interesting!
gracias.
My pleasure. :’)
A very good find, thanks.
:’)
(time index set to the Delphi segment)Mysteries of the Ancient World - Myths and Legends (at 43:15)
March 13, 2016 | Questar Entertainment
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