Hi,
I guess it was our sub-consensus that made Atzva and I to take this detour to Delphi (where the Oracle of Delphi sits) through Tebi. Probably literature lessons in high school where you have to read Antigone – a Greek tragedy.
Along the way you realize where many of the programming names comes from: Delphi (the city), Oracle (of Apollo), Python (the ancient snake)….
In the end the site wasn’t as exciting as I thought it will be. Maybe it was – Not reading or knowing enough of the Greek culture and history. But maybe the place was missing some guided imagination, the temple of Apollo must have been amazing but more pics of how it was from within or a real size statue with the eternal fire below could have done the work 😀 (we didn’t get in the museum, might be it would have done the work).
The site location is amazing – lying on the slopes of mount Parnassus looking down on the valley of Pleistos. So get ready to step up some stairs up and down the site
The town of Delphi itself isn’t exciting. Arachova, a ski town above Delphi, seems like a better place to spend the night and walk around.
General view of the site a little bit above the entrance
Illustration of site
Explanation sign on the site – Sanctuary of Apollo
A general map of the site
A grave. The cemetery is along the entrance way to the site
The Agora
The Agora explanation sign
Looking up the scared way
Looking down the sacred way
The sacred way explanation sign
The treasury of the Boeotians
The Navel explnation sign
The treasury of the Athens and explanation on those of Sikyonians and the Siphnians
The Halos
The Halos wall with the engravings
The engravings on the Halos wall stones
The Halos explanation sign
The alter of Chiots, The pedestal of the statue of Ameilius Paulus and the tripod of Plataeans explanation sign
The pedestal of the statue of Ameilius Paulus
The alter of Chiots, The pedestal of the statue of Ameilius Paulus and the tripod of Plataeans explanation sign
The temple of Apollo from above
The temple of Apollo explanation sign
Delphi theater from top
Delphi theater from below
The theater explanation sign
Panorama view of the stadium
The stadium explanation sign
I liked to look on the studs connection between the stones. That is something we also use now, thousands of years after, to connect structural elements.
Base stones with the studs
Base head with the shear studs