Pythia

How To Use Pythia In A Sentence

• To honor his triumph over the beast, Apollo instated the sacred games known as Pythian, which are held at Delphi every four years since 6 B.C.
• Origin tales: Thoegeny calls Cheiron the offspring of Phillyra; the Gigantomachia and Pherekydes elaborate that Kronos took on the form of a horse to mate with her; Pindar n Pythian 4 later uses this parentage, and implies his Cheiron is married to Charilko -- who is attested in art, shown as entirely human, and with human offspring. The Origins of Centaurs
• It bore the Knights of Pythias name and insignia above names of World War I casualties, among them: a Schwartz, a Dickstein and a Katz. Laura Silver: On Veterans, Crosses And Shields
• Tara appreciated the fire aspect of it the Pythia was a pyromancer, after all, but thought the small, tippy chair looked terribly uncomfortable. Dark Oracle
• Among those who came under it was a Pythagorean called Pythias, who was sentenced to death, according to the usual fate of those who fell under his suspicion. A Book of Golden Deeds
• The Pythian Temple's brickwork catches the golden glint. All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story
• If Apollo was a musician, then his priestess, the Pythia, was his instrument.
• This of old was accounted a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
• There was also a half-line of a Pythian oracle to the same effect: The History of the Peloponnesian War
• Standing, as it were, historically between Mycenae and Athens, and artistically between temple and hippodrome, the Theban Pindar in life was awarded the right to an equal share of first-fruit offer - ings by the Pythian priestess of Delphi, and after death, heroization, his ghost being invited annually to dine with Apollo (Gilbert Norwood, Pindar [1945]). Dictionary of the History of Ideas