Delphi : on Mt. Parnassus in central Greece is the sacred site of the most important temple to Apollo. It is where the Pythia (see Pythian & Pythoness) delivers the cryptic messages of the Gods. The omphalos (nave) of Delphi was the heart of the world.
... over Troy and her ramparts Built by the gods shall be stubble and earth to the tread of the Hellene. For to my tents I return not, I swear it by Zeus and Apollo, Master of Truth who sits within Delphi fathomless brooding Sole in the caverns of Nature and hearkens her underground murmur, Giving my oath to his keeping mute and stern who forgets not, Not from the panting of Ares' toil to repose... you suffered Patient, preparing the north, the wisdom and silence of Peleus, Atreus' craft and the Argives gathered to King Agamemnon. But there were prophecies, Pythian oracles, mutterings from Delphi. How shall they prosper who haste after auguries, oracles, whispers, Dreams that walk in the night and voices obscure of the silence? Touches are these from the gods that bewilder the brain to its... chaos. Who shall foretell the event of a battle, the fall of a footstep? Oracles, visions and prophecies voice but the dreams of the mortal, And 'tis our spirit within is the Pythoness tortured in Delphi. Heavenly voices to us are a silence, those colours a whiteness. Neither the thought of the statesman prevails nor the dream of the prophet, Whether one cry, 'Thus devise and thy heart shall be ...
... Hecuba, and a great Trojan hero The remains of a monument at Delphi Delos: A small island in the center of the Cyclades in the southern Aegean; it was regarded as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis (twin children of Zeus from Leto or Latona) and was the seat of an oracle of Apollo. Delphi: A rugged spot on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in central Greece... prophecy, son of Zeus and Latona; originally a god of the sun and mystic illumination (see also his epithets Phoebus and Loxias); sometimes identified with Helios. His chief oracle was at Delphi. With Poseidon he built the walls of Troy for Laomedon. He was on the side of the Trojans in the war despite Laomedon's treachery, but in Ilion he finally deserts the city, though he stands behind ...
... fear it more than we fear those evils which we know to be evils: "To be afraid of death is just another form of thinking one is wise when one is not. " 4 1. Oracle of Delphi: Divinely inspired utterances given at Delphi, the Temple of Apollo, the most widely revered of the Greeks Gods. 2. Plato, ibid, p. 63. . 3. Plato, ibid, p. 73. 4. Plato, ibid, p. 60. Page 62 ... wisdom (such as it is) the god at Delphi. 10 You know Chaerephon, 11 of course. He was a friend of mine from boyhood, and a good democrat who played his part with the rest of you in the recent expulsion 12 and restoration. And you know what he was like; how enthusiastic he was over anything that he had once undertaken. Well, one day he actually went to Delphi and asked this question of the god... other expensive habits. Evenus of Paros was a rhetorician and poet (mentioned also in the Phaedo) who was staying at , this time in Athens. ¦ Delphi: The oracle of Apollo at Delphi was the supreme authority whose advice was sought on all kinds of subjects — religious, moral, political, and personal. The source of its information remains a mystery; if it relied ...
... wisdom (such as it is) the god at Delphi.10 You know Chaerephon,¹¹ of course. He was a friend of mine from boyhood, and a good democrat who played his part with the rest of you in the recent expulsion¹² and restoration. And you know what he was like; how enthusiastic he was over anything that he had once undertaken. Well, one day he actually went to Delphi and asked this question of the god... and other expensive habits. 9 Evenus of Paros was a rhetorician and poet (mentioned also in the Phaedo) who was staying at this time in Athens. 10 Delphi: The oracle of Apollo at Delphi was the supreme authority whose advice was sought on all kinds of subjects religious, moral, political, and personal. The source of its information remains a Page 82 ...
... find imbedded in it. We have not to ask why dolabra in Latin means an axe, dalmi in Sanscrit means Indra’s thunderbolt, dalapa & dala are applied to weapons, or dalanam means crushing or Delphi in Greek is the name given to a place of caverns & ravines; but we may confine ourselves to an Page 562 inquiry into the nature of the mother-root dal of which all these different but... their Science & began to argue from it to all sorts of sound or unsound conclusions. The real clef, the real correlation is to be found in this other agreement, dalbha , dalana , dolabra , dolōn , delphi , leading to the idea of a common mother-root, common word-families, common word-clans, kindred word-nations or, as we call them, languages. And if it had been also noticed, that in all these languages ...
... that he remarked to his followers, who were laughing and mocking the philosopher as they went away, "You may say what you like, but if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes." Next he visited Delphi, because he wished to consult the oracle of Apollo 7 about the expedition against the Persians. It so happened that he arrived on one of those days which are called inauspicious, when it is forbidden... i thirteen talents into modem figures. It is enough to say that by the Greek standards of the tin this was a very high price. When Alexander was thirteen. About the Oracle of Delphi, see foot-note n°l, p.62. Modem estimates give totals of about 43,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry: about one quarter ( these were the advance guard, which had already crossed to Asia. The ...
... volumes). 46. Plato, "The Apology of Socrates", The Last Days of Socrates (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1961), p. 59. 47. Ibid.,p.6~[ 48. Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: divinely inspired utterances given at Delphi, the temple of Apollo, the most widely revered of the Greeks Gods. 49. Plato, "The Apology of Socrates", The Last Days of Socrates (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1961), p... younger, to fight against his elder brother, the emperor of Persia, Xenophon consulted Socrates whether he should go to Persia to fight for Cyrus or not. Socrates directed him to consult the Oracle at Delphi. Instead, Xenophon asked the Oracle as to which gods he should pray to and sacrifice to, in order to return successfully and safe from his voyage, and the oracle gave him the names. When he recounted ...
... Greek cultural history: it states only the inevitable culmination of the history of the human mind. Perhaps we shall be asked: "What about the two maxims inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi: gnothi seauton and meden agan? Do not 'Know thyself' and 'Nothing in excess' prove the poised and prudential reign of the intellect in the Apollonian? How would Sri Aurobindo's thesis hold face... mouthpiece of one who declares: "Dire, overpowering the brain I shall speak out my oracles splendid"— one about whom Sri Aurobindo again writes: Master of Truth who sits within Delphi fathomless brooding Sole in the caverns of Nature and hearkens her underground murmur... 1 Nature's secrets, whether directly grasped from beyond the mind or raised up from the subliminal ...
... allowed de Coubertin to use its amphitheatre. Two thousand people attended the Congress, including 79 delegates and 49 sports associations from 12 countries. A hymn to Apollo, recently discovered at Delphi, was sung at the inauguration. Afterwards, Pierre de Coubertin stood by and unfolded his great dream before the Congress. He told them that "a man is not only formed of two parts, body and soul; there... as an expression of a rich diversity which does not pre vent but, on the contrary, sustains human unity. That was certainly Pierre de Coubertin's intuition. When in 1913 he found an emblem at Delphi consisting of five linked rings, he chose it as the symbol of the Olympics and explained, "These five rings represent the five parts of the world won over to Olympism and ready to accept its bountiful ...
... There was also a powerful Jewish community settled there, which gave trouble to Paul during Gallio's proconsulship of Achaia (Acts 18:12), starting from 52 A.D. according to an inscription found at Delphi. 156 At the time 1 Corinthians was written, a learned Jew from Alexandria (Acts 18:24), Apollos, who after Paul's departure from Corinth had become a leader there of the Christian community, was with ...
... shake in his chambers. Yet shall a portion be kept for these, Ares and white Aphrodite. Thou whom already thy Pythoness bears not, torn by thy advent, Caverned already who sittest in Delphi knowing thy future, What wilt thou do with the veil and the night, O burning Apollo," Then from the orb of his glory unbearable save to immortals Bright and austere replied the beautiful ...
... prophecy. Everywhere he was associated with order, measure and beauty; whereas in other cults there were strange elements of fear and superstition, in the worship of Apollo, and in his great festivals at Delphi and Delos, the dominant note was the rejoicing of a brilliant people in a god of health and wisdom, reason and song. In India the Vedic gods developed their psychological functions but retained ...
... carried to the islands and the mainland of primitive Greece, together with the statues of their gods, when they founded the mysteries at Dodona, those of the Kabiroi, and probably most others including Delphi. The theos anèr , the divine Man, seems to have been known also by those people who dedicated their lives to becoming what, as they discovered, they were the living image of. Gnosticism Gnosticism ...
... argument or dissertation. It is not by the exercise of the logical or debating mind that one can arrive at a true understanding of yoga and follow it.’ 10 Above the entrance of the Apollo temple in Delphi was written: ‘Know yourself’. Nowadays, this adage is generally understood in the humanistic, psychological sense, but it was the key word from the core of the secret Greek mysteries: know your Self ...
... the work of a tailor in the Ashram. Henri Frederic Amiel (27.9.1821-11.5.1881), Swiss critic and poet. Shailen, Anilbaran's brother. Lofty mountain of Greece, north of Delphi; associated in classical Greece with worship of Apollo and the Muses. Mundaka Upanishad, Chap. Ill, Section 1, 1. A new type of metre, ayugma (open syllable), yugma (closed syllable) ...
... answer, and that was that one knows nothing of the gods, but he further clarified that one should worship the gods according to the law of one's country. In fact he himself referred to the oracle at Delphi, and often recommended others to take the advice given by it. However, he believed and was vocal about his belief that apart from the existence of the gods, there existed a faculty in man as well - ...
... learning. One of these young men was Plato, his chief disciple and one of the greatest philosophers of the world. Socrates had a friend whose name was Alcibiades. Once he went to the oracle of Delphi, whom he asked if there was any one wiser than Socrates. The oracle said that there was none. On hearing this, Alcibiades was very pleased and told Socrates what the oracle had spoken to him. But when ...
... looked, if he had lived only ten or twenty ________ 1 Toil: hard or exhausting work. 2 Cassender, son of Antipater, when king himself, shuddered at the sight of a statue of Alexander at Delphi. 3 Flux: state of continuous change, fluctuation. Page 61 Alexander's empire years longer. How differently then should we be able to judge the youthful work which he did ...
... slaying the peoples in anger, recklessly sparing, Spending the strength that is thine to inherit the doom of another! Goddess of pity who yearnst and who helpest, Durga, our Mother! Brooder in Delphi's caverns, Voice in the groves of Dodona! Goddess serene of an ancient progeny, Dian, Latona! Virgin! ascetic frank or remote, Athene the mighty! Harlot supine to the worlds, insatiate white Aphrodite ...
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