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The Dancers of Delphi in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.

The Dancers of Delphi, also known as the Acanthus Column, are three figures in high relief on top of an acanthus column found near the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo at Delphi. They are on display in the Delphi Archaeological Museum and were the inspiration for the first of Claude Debussy's Préludes.

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Dancers of Delphi

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The Dancers of Delphi, also known as the Acanthus Column, are three figures in high relief on top of an acanthus column found near the sanctuary of Pythian...

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Omphalos of Delphi

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The Omphalos of Delphi is an ancient marble monument that was found at the archaeological site of Delphi, Greece. According to the Ancient Greek myths...

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Pythia

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the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title...

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Delphi Archaeological Museum

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Delphi Archaeological museum (Greek: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Δελφών) is one of the principal museums of Greece and one of the most visited. It is operated...

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Phryne

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the walls. She was also said to have dedicated a statue of herself at Delphi, and a statue of Eros to Thespiae. Phryne probably lived beyond 316 BC, when...

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Ex voto of Daochos

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with the Dancers of Delphi was situated the Athenian Treasury, where was located the famous ex voto of Daochos (Ανάθημα του Δαόχου, "vow of Daochos")...

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Excavations at Delphi

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Other highlights of the excavations were the discovery of the Dancers of Delphi as well as of the Roman statue of Antinous and of the pair of archaic kouroi...

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Esther Smith

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Uncle, Cuckoo and Trying. She is also known for originating the role of Delphi Diggory in the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Smith was raised...

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List of oracular statements from Delphi

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of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi....

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Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi

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and the Peril at Delphi is the first of 12 Indiana Jones novels published by Bantam Books. Rob MacGregor, its author, also wrote five of the other Indiana...

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Cephisodotus the Elder

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perhaps the father or an uncle of Praxiteles, one of whose sculptor sons was Cephisodotus the Younger. The one noted work of his was Eirene (Peace) bearing...

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Apollo

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the patron deity of Delphi (Apollo Pythios), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle and also the deity of ritual purification...

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Despinis Head

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the Dancers of Delphi and the Themis of Rhamnous, two works which are dated to 330-320 BC and 320-280 BC respectively and belong to the final phase of Praxiteles'...

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Cephisodotus the Younger

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Cephisodotus, son of Praxiteles, brother of Timarchos and grandson of Cephisodotus the Elder. None of his work remains in originals, but in later, mostly...

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Artemis

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Delphinios (literally derived from Delphi). Dereatis, at Sparta near Taygetos. Dancers were performing the obscene dance "kallabis". Diktynna, from Mount...

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Homeric Hymns

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romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The hymns praise individual deities of the Greek pantheon and retell...

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Alexandros Kapelis

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into the wild raptures of Claude Debussy's ‘The Joyous Island’ and expertly limned the classical poise of his ‘Dancers of Delphi’”, while also remarking...

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Bat for Lashes

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Haunted Man (2012), The Bride (2016), Lost Girls (2019), and The Dream of Delphi (2024). She has received three Mercury Prize nominations. Khan is also...

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Oracle

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oracles of Greek antiquity were Pythia (priestess to Apollo at Delphi), and the oracle of Dione and Zeus at Dodona in Epirus. Other oracles of Apollo were...

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Nightclub

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with a dancing licence were registered by 1930, including the Moka Efti, Casanova, Scala, Delphi-Palast (destroyed in WW2, replaced by the Delphi Filmpalast)...

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Muses

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Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. In Delphi too three Muses were worshipped, but with other...

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Sibyl

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oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has been dated to as early as the eleventh century BC by Pausanias when...

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MOMIX

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selected to represent the United States at the European Cultural Center at Delphi. MOMIX has created special shows for product launches, as well as national...

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Sweet Hearts Dance

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Sweet Hearts Dance is a 1988 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Greenwald. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson centers on two small town couples...

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Aesop

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met his end in the city of Delphi. Plutarch tells us that Aesop came to Delphi on a diplomatic mission from King Croesus of Lydia, that he insulted the...

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