Search results for "Oracle" - New World Encyclopedia
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- crowded island of Thera were commanded by the oracle at Delphi to seek a new home in North Africa. In 631 B.C.E., they founded the city of Cyrene. Within ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- includes a fictional account of his visit to an oracle, who predicted that the document would be rediscoved "nineteen hundred year or near" ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- spirits, and in ancient Greece the oracle of Delphi was often consulted for advice. Nevertheless, the world's religions generally discourage ...65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- Phocis in its sovereign rights on the oracle.Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Book 1:112; and Plutarch, Pericles, Lives XXI. In 447 ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- In more recent times a Parisian Oracle of mystic subjects, the Baron d'Orchamps, announced the diamond, if worn on the left (hand) warded ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
