Usage examples (35)

• From thence the Delphic priestess was called Pythia, and the games there celebrated, the Pythian games.
• In Classic Greek, also, Apollo is called the prophet of Jupiter, and the Pythia is the prophetess of Apollo.
• The priestess who delivered the oracles was called the Pythia, after the serpent Python, which was killed by Apollo.
• A priestess delivered the responses, who was called Pythia, probably in commemoration of the exploit which had been performed by Apollo.