place
Delphi
The Phocian seat of Apollo's oracle, consulted about Cydippe's sickness.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.23 come to know himself
The maxim 'know thyself' inscribed at Apollo's oracle at Delphi; the foundation of loving wisely.
- The Art of Love §3.37 Phoebus's tripods
The oracular tripods of Apollo at Delphi; with horned Ammon, a type of true prophecy.
- Metamorphoses §1.9 Delphic land
Delphi, chief seat of Apollo's oracle, named among the lands that serve him.
- Metamorphoses §10.295 Delphi
Apollo's great oracular seat, left without its god while he dotes on Hyacinthus.
- Metamorphoses §15.477 my own Delphi
Apollo's oracular seat; Pythagoras claims an inspired voice of his own.
- Metamorphoses §15.505 coming to Delphi
Apollo's oracle, 'the central ground of the world.'