Delphic maxims were profound sayings that shaped Greek thought and guided philosophy through ethics and wisdom.

The role of priestess at the Oracle of Delphi was vastly influential. The Priestess Pythia was consulted on everything from ...

Sunlight floods the hillsides dotted with dark green cypress and olive groves. Here are the ruins, the stepping stones of a sanctuary that has existed since Mycenaean times. The Tholos, originally ...

When traveling in a country as old as Greece, ancient ruins can quickly go from magnificent to mind-numbing. Great — yet another nameless hill with more stony remnants of people from centuries past.

Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big ...

In 356BC, the site of the Delphic oracle, hidden in the folds of Mount Parnassus, between the Corycian cave and the Castalian spring, was invaded by the army of neighbouring Phocis and placed under ...