Pythia
quoted 4 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Pythia the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
2 quoted · 2 reported
3 neutralin the voice of Pythia 2 , the Pythia 1
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 neutral 3 citations
The Pythia's oracular pronouncement directing suppliants to Aeacus's prayer is reported as a direct oracular act.
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;
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage describes the Pythia's oracle-giving as a speech act performed for each individual inquirer.
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.
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