Pythia
historical figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages
the Pythia · the oracle · the Pythian · the god · the oracle of Delphi · the priestess · tripod and the Delphian laurel
spoken of as
2 expressionsthe Pythia4 mentions
The Histories (Greek) · Stromata (Greek) · Apology (Greek)
When the Spartans asked the oracle about this war when it broke out, the Pythia had foretold that either Lacedaemon would be destroyed by the barbarians or their king would be killed.
The Pythia of Delphi1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
When the Lydians came, and spoke as they had been instructed, the priestess (it is said) made the following reply.
in the texts
Stromata
The oracular priestess of Apollo at Delphi, quoted or reported three times delivering pronouncements.
And again, when Herodotus in the account of Glaucus the Spartan had said that the Pythia declared that to make trial of the god and to do the deed came to the same thing, Aristophanes said, "For thinking has equal power with doing";
And the Delphians, when Xerxes was marching against Hellas, the Pythia having proclaimed, "O Delphians, pray to the winds, and it shall be the better," having made an altar and a sacrifice to the winds, had them as helpers;
But indeed the Greeks — when a drought once was for a long time wasting Hellas and a barrenness of crops held it fast, the survivors, they say, coming as suppliants by reason of the famine to Delphi, asked the Pythia how they might be rid of the evil.
Orations
The Delphic priestess who delivers Apollo's oracle concerning Theagenes.
When, all having returned, there was no improvement, consulting again, the Pythia is said to have answered thus:
The maxims of the Seven Sages, too, they hear were set up of old at Delphi, as, in a manner, certain first-fruits of those men's wisdom and at the same time for the benefit of mankind—as being in truth divine, and well-nigh more divine than the oracles which the Pythia delivered, sitting upon the tripod, filled with the breath of the god.
The Histories
The priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracle warning that Sparta would lose either its city or a king of the Heraclid line.
When the Spartans asked the oracle about this war when it broke out, the Pythia had foretold that either Lacedaemon would be destroyed by the barbarians or their king would be killed.
with this knowledge it was that they sent to the oracle at Delphi, where they received the answer about which I spoke a little while ago.
When the Lydians came, and spoke as they had been instructed, the priestess (it is said) made the following reply.
Against Ctesiphon
Delphic priestess whose oracle and alleged political bias are invoked.
And did not Demosthenes oppose, and say that the Pythia had gone over to Philip?
The Pythia replied that they must fight against the Cirrhaeans and the Cragalidae day and night, bitterly ravage their country, enslave the inhabitants, and dedicate the land to the Pythian Apollo and Artemis and Leto and Athena Pronaea, that for the future it lie entirely uncultivated;
De Rerum Natura
The oracular priestess of Apollo at Delphi, whose pronouncements from the tripod were considered authoritative.
From out the tripod and the Delphian laurel,
Than ever the Pythian pronounced for men
Oracles holier and soundlier based