Of all seers consulted by the messengers of the king, the
Oracle of Delphi was the only correct one.
Tomorrow woven into our bodies." The tone of the narration lies somewhere between Buddha and the
Oracle of Delphi: elliptical and oblique, suggesting meanings but not insisting on them, leaving viewers to connect the dots.
Alessandra is the
Oracle of Delphi (the last prophesized) and bears the mark of the double omega.
He adds, "But when I look at the sculpture I can't help but think about the
Oracle of Delphi, which was supposed to allow the priests to connect with the gods to retrieve advanced information and various aspects." He also wonders if this is where the technology company Oracle and the programming language Delphi, got their names from.
We shake our heads now at his conviction that young boys want to marry their mothers and kill their fathers...." and, "Gradually, physicians came to recognize that focusing on unobservable processes shrouded within a nebulous 'Mind' did not produce lasting change...." Psychoanalysts and psychoanalysis are compared with or described as: "omen-divining wizards," "the primeval sorcery of the jungle witch doctor," "the psychoanalytic theocracy," "the circus Big Top," "a mangled map of mental illness," "the psychoanalytic hegemony," "the
Oracle of Delphi."
"Delphi" refers to the
Oracle of Delphi, where in ancient Greece someone (perhaps ancient program managers) went to receive prophecies about the future.
Cicero wrote, "Never could the
Oracle of Delphi have been so overwhelmed with offerings from monarchs and nations if throughout all the ages it had not proved the truth of its oracles." Historian F.W.H.
Pilgrims took the waters in the pool near the temple, slept not too far from the cave and received visions and prophecies, in a sort of
oracle of Delphi effect.
See to it, and don't forget." These were the very last words uttered by the great philosopher of whom the
Oracle of Delphi once proclaimed: "there is no man wiser than Socrates."
Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google have reshaped what was once a humble research tool into a modern
Oracle of Delphi, a liminal space where people gather together to create, share and engage on differing viewpoints.
But, unbelievably, her every gormless utterance is received with the reverence once accorded the
Oracle of Delphi.
(31) Julian is known to have sent Oribasius to revive the oracle at Delphi (Philostorgius 7.15) only to receive the famous last
oracle of Delphi. (32) He commanded the Castalian spring at Daphne, which Hadrian had blocked up (Amm.
The
Oracle of Delphi in the ancient world made a few bob making predictions in phrases that were widely open to interpretation.
The
Oracle of Delphi was a real figure in Greek history, bestowing advice and prophecy to multitudes of men on matters as diverse as marriage and war.
