The Site of Delphi
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- Created on: 21-02-22 12:54
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- The Site of Delphi
- Key Features/ Monuments
- Temple of Apollo
- Adyton
- Where the Pythia would consult the oracle
- this extra room made the whole temple longer
- East Pediment - arrival of Apollo in a chariot
- West Pediment - possibly the Gigantomachy
- Adyton
- Theatre
- built in the 4th Century therefore Delphi had already been established and reliable
- The Sacred Way
- Treasuries
- Athenian
- Post Battle of Marathon victory 490BC
- Marble, prime position where worshippers will likely rest their, attached to a stoa beneath the Temple
- Siphnos
- Marble and adorned with Caryatids
- allowed this small island to establish/ promote itself in the Hellenic sphere
- Athenian
- Altar of the Chians
- this provided them with Promanteia
- Outside the Temple = important
- stoas
- monuments
- Serpent Column of Plataea
- made following the defeat of the Persians by each Polis involved
- display of unity and common worship
- however would expose and shame other Greek Poleis for not joining the resistance against the Persians
- Serpent Column of Plataea
- Treasuries
- Stadium
- used in the Pythian Games
- Temple of Apollo
- importance of the site
- Panhellenic site, co-operation, identity
- Site of the Panhellenic Games
- Religion
- mythical links
- the Omphalos is believed to be the centre of the Earth - where Zeus' two eagles met
- Site of Apollo's Pythian oracle
- mythical links
- Politics
- providing monuments allowed poleis to gain promanteia
- exchange of ideas and culture
- eg at the stoas
- Key Features/ Monuments
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