High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, beneath the gaze of Apollo, people once climbed toward Delphi carrying questions they could not answer alone. In this episode, we follow them up the Sacred Way to meet the Pythia, the woman believed to speak with the voice of a god, and explore the strange, beautiful world of prophecy, ritual, myth and interpretation.Because sometimes the hardest part is not receiving an answer. It is deciding what we want it to mean.
Further Reading
Scott, Michael. Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Herodotus. The Histories. Translated by A. D. Godley. Harvard University Press, 1920.
Pausanias. Description of Greece. Translated by W. H. S. Jones and H. A. Ormerod. Harvard University Press, 1918.
Plutarch. Moralia, Volume V: Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles. Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Harvard University Press, 1936.
Bowden, Hugh. Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Johnston, Sarah Iles. Ancient Greek Divination. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Hex & Muse is recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my deepest respects to their Elders past and present - and to all First Nations people, whose stories and spirits continue to shape this land.
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