The oracle of the wooden wall
the Delphic Oracle
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Rhetoric Aristotle 1 citation
The oracle concerning the wooden wall is explicitly named and its interpretation by Themistocles reported.
thus, for instance, Themistocles interpreted the wooden wall to mean that they must fight at sea.
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Themistocles Plutarch 1 citation
The oracle is relied upon by Themistocles as a source of divine legitimacy for his interpretation that the fleet is the promised 'wooden wall'.
Moreover, with the well-known oracle he tried again to win the people over to his views, saying that its wooden wall meant nothing else than their fleet;
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