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The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi

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(027509) Broad, William J. The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 320 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Signed by the author. B&W Illustrations. In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination. 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 ISBN: 1594200815 (Delphian Oracle)