Pythian Priestess · Atlas

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The Pythian Priestess3 mentions

The Histories (Greek) · Helen (Greek) · Apologeticum (Latin)

and the Pythian priestess told them to obey the vision, saying that their fortune would be better.

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in the texts

The HistoriesClassical · Greek

Oracle priestess at Delphi who delivers divine pronouncements to Gyges, Alyattes, and Croesus

However, the Pythian priestess declared that the Heraclidae would have vengeance on Gyges ' posterity in the fifth generation;

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But when the messengers came to Delphi, the Pythian priestess would not answer them before they restored the temple of Athena at Assesos in the Milesian territory, which they had burnt.

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Delphi, no sooner had the Lydians entered the hall to inquire of the god and asked the question with which they were entrusted, than the Pythian priestess uttered the following hexameter verses:

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IonClassical · Greek

The priestess of Apollo who found and raised the infant Ion in the temple; she intervenes to stop Ion's vengeance and reveals the basket of tokens that leads to his recognition.

Pythian Priestess:

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Pythian Priestess:

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Pythian Priestess:

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HelenClassical · Greek

The Delphic priestess whose oracle concerning Helen's maturity is invoked by her guardians.

And when he was unable to obtain her from her guardians—for they were awaiting her maturity and the fulfilment of the oracle which the Pythian priestess had given—scorning the royal power of Tyndareus, disdaining the might of Castor and Pollux, and belittling all the hazards in Lacedaemon, he seized her by force and established her at Aphidna in Attica.

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ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

The Delphic oracle-priestess, whose shrine bore the inscription urging self-knowledge.

You, man, so great a name — if you understand yourself, learning it even from the inscription of the Pythian priestess — lord of all things that die and rise again:

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