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Jackie asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 9 years ago

What gods and rituals did they use in Ancient Greece to predict the future?

How did they predict the future in Ancient Greece? I know Apollo was gifted this was and that he taught this gift to others, but I can't find much more useful information.

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  • 9 years ago
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    The most important oracles of Greek antiquity were Pythia, priestess to Apollo at Delphi, and the oracle of Dione and Zeus at Dodona in Epirus. Other temples of Apollo were located at Didyma on the coast of Asia Minor, at Corinth and Bassae in the Peloponnese, and at the islands of Delos and Aegina in the Aegean Sea. Only the Delphic Oracle was a female; all others were male. The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The Oracle of Delphi

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