Definition of Oracle of Apollo

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the oracle at Delphi where a priestess supposedly delivered messages from Apollo to those who sought advice; the messages were usually obscure or ambiguous.

Exact synonyms: Delphic Oracle, Oracle Of Delphi, Temple Of Apollo
Generic synonyms: Oracle
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Group relationships: Delphi

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oracle Of Apollo

Opportunity
Opposite Day
Oprah
Ops
Opsanus tau
Optez
Opuntia cholla
Opuntia lindheimeri
Opuntia tuna
Opuntiales
Opus Dei
Or.
Ora
Orabase
Oracle
Oracle of Apollo (current term)
Oradexon
Oral Roberts
Oram
Oran
Orange
Orange County
Orange Free State
Orange GGN
Orange Group
Orange Order
Orange River
Orange River Colony

Literary usage of Oracle of Apollo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Ib« prophète» U laid to have warned Pyrrhus, Й. Oracle of Apollo Lycius, ... Except the two at Argos, there was no oracle of Apollo in Peloponnesus : the ..."

2. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith (1855)
"Influence of tlie Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. $ 9. Community of Manners and Character. § 10. The Independent Sovereignty of each City a settled Maxim in the ..."

3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"But considering the efficacy ot religion in promoting every new institution, he went first to con- suit the oracle of Apollo at Delphos, where he met a ..."

4. A Manual of Grecian and Roman Antiquities by Ernst Frederik Bojesen, T. K. Arnold (1874)
"The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. 380. The most renowned oracle of Greece, which was often consulted not only by the Grecian, but by foreign states, ..."

5. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"... by whom also the fore-mentioned account of Pliny is confirmed. At Larissa, a fort of the Argives, there was an oracle of Apollo, surnamed A-. ..."

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