Xenoclea (Ancient Greek: Ξενόκλεια), who appears as a character in the legend of Hercules, was the Pythia, or priestess and oracle, of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
The Delphic oracle was a historical reality and was established in the 8th century BC.[1]
^Catherine Morgan, Athletes and Oracles (Cambridge, 1990), p. 148
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