Where Delphi was

The ancient panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi in Greece, seat of the oracle of Apollo. Athenaeum places it in the Central & northern Greece region. The source gives a located position.

Periods the source attests

These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.

  • Archaic Greece
  • Classical Greece
  • Hellenistic world
  • Roman world
  • Late antiquity

Its names

The source lists these other names and spellings for Delphi.

  • Πυθώ
  • Puthō, Pytho
  • Δελφοί
  • Delphoi
  • دلفي
  • Dilfi, Delfey, DLFY, DLFI, Odaj, dlfy

About the illustration

Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.

Questions about ancient Delphi

Where does the information about Delphi come from?

From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.

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Sources

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