Secret of Delphi Found in Ancient Text

Alun Salt 'blog ^ | 28th of February, 2006 | Alun Salt

[SunkenCiv]

The four major stars of Delphinus from ESO data. Credit: Digitized Sky Survey, ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator. Colour Composite: Alun Salt.

[Candor7]

Ping!

[Silentgypsy]

Please excuse my ignorance. What was the subject matter of the consultations?

[humblegunner]

Postgraduate student Alun Salt said: ..."I was playing around with a planisphere

That can make you go blind. Ask Glenn Beck.

[bboop]

Very interesting, thanks. We just saw Winter’s Tale last night, and the Delphi Oracle is featured. Got me thinking about it. I love his blog’s by-line: ‘AlunSalt.com, because naming a blog is harder than it looks.’ haha.

[bboop]

Very interesting, thanks. We just saw Winter’s Tale last night, and the Delphi Oracle is featured. Got me thinking about it. I love his blog’s by-line: ‘AlunSalt.com, because naming a blog is harder than it looks.’ haha.

[bboop]

Very interesting, thanks. We just saw Winter’s Tale last night, and the Delphi Oracle is featured. Got me thinking about it. I love his blog’s by-line: ‘AlunSalt.com, because naming a blog is harder than it looks.’ haha.

[STD]

It’s Obama’s Fault

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘What was the subject matter of the consultations?’

Everything from who to marry to when and where to go to war.

[Candor7]

Ping!

[Candor7]

LOL. And it can also make one very “late”

[US Navy Vet]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi#Oracle

[Tainan]

"Secrets of Delhi?"

Delhi is a suburb of Cincinnati. They got secrets?
Who knew?

[US Navy Vet]

This series is OUTSTANDING: http://www.drivethruhistory.com/

[hellbender]

Classical Mythology by Morford and Lenardon says that the oracle was open on the 7th day of every month, except for 3 months during the winter. Nothing is mentioned about the constellation Delphinius.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

The most famous consultations involved Croesus of Lydia, the Spartans before Thermopylae, and most famously of all, the “wooden wall” of Athens.

Not much here, but may be of interest:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oracleatdelphi/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oracleofdelphi/index

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[InABunkerUnderSF]

From the town of Delphi where the hotels are, no way could you see Delphinus. But from the Temple of Apollo I’ll bet you could. One problem - It’s closed at night!

I never studied the the origins of the name “Delphi” and despite being an astronomy buff.

Just ordered a copy of “Theogony” from Amazon. Another important book that never popped up on a reading list at Cal.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post/links; links. Interesting, educational.