From thence the Delphic priestess was called Pythia, and the games there celebrated, the Pythian games. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
In Classic Greek, also, Apollo is called the prophet of Jupiter, and the Pythia is the prophetess of Apollo. From Wordnik.com. [Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People] Reference
The priestess who delivered the oracles was called the Pythia, after the serpent Python, which was killed by Apollo. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
A priestess delivered the responses, who was called Pythia, probably in commemoration of the exploit which had been performed by Apollo. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
"The Pythia is a wise woman, who lives in the temple. From Wordnik.com. [Old Greek Stories] Reference
Presently I asked Hagnon what the Pythia had been like. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
She must be very disappointed with Pythia and the Gods. From Wordnik.com. [VARIANTS: Analyzing BSG Season 4, Part II Teaser] Reference
My Pythia studies are low, but that's what confuses me. From Wordnik.com. [Delphic Delirium] Reference
Pythia, who, on the Delphian tripod, admitted the inspiration of. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
My friend's friend had a theory: Kara = this generations' Pythia. From Wordnik.com. [The Official BSG Spoiler Thread, Final Episode #1] Reference
Or maybe it really just is the combo that does it for the Pythia. From Wordnik.com. [Delphic Delirium] Reference
The first trilogy is now complete, concerning Cassie becoming Pythia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
The Pythia would hedge her bets and disguise the name in subterfuge. '. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
We see a burning book of Pythia, probably Kara at her funural pyre. From Wordnik.com. [VARIANTS: SEASON 4.5 PROMO - A FLEET FRACTURES] Reference
That Pythia, Isthmia, and Nemea are not mentioned may be more than tact. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Pythia, beginning with ek theon gar makanoi pasai Broteais aretais, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
I had assumed, 'I returned mildly,' the incomprehensible Pythia is a smokescreen. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
In that case, the Pythia purifies herself with Kastalian water and enters the temple. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
If it's The Book of Pythia it would make sense she's throwing he beliefs to the fire. From Wordnik.com. [VARIANTS: Analyzing BSG Season 4, Part II Teaser] Reference
The limelight falls on time traveling and manipulation as the main power of the Pythia. From Wordnik.com. ["Embrace the Night" by Karen Chance] Reference
And I thought President Roslin had a difficult time figuring out the Scrolls of Pythia …. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Well that’s one way to freak your people out…] Reference
As one, Finitan, the Mayor, and the Pythia turned to acknowledge the approaching grande dame. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
When Linnea as Gull is renamed by Pythia is in her teens, Pythia dies and Linnea takes her place. From Wordnik.com. [Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books] Reference
Delphi saying that the Pythia admonished them to shake off sloth and devote themselves to the war. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Also, Katie, don't the scrolls of Pythia say that any return to Kobol has to be paid for in blood?. From Wordnik.com. [Open Thread: #419 Someone To Watch Over Me] Reference
Pythia said, “… the leader suffered a wasting disease and would not live to enter the new land.”. From Wordnik.com. [Battlestar Galactica: Watched The Finale? Still Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!] Reference
A favourable response, vouchsafed to him by the Pythia from the tripod, at his entrance into the fane of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Instead, he was disconcerted to find the Pythia retained the beauty of a woman still awaiting her half-century. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
These mutterings of the Pythia were taken down by attendant priests, interpreted, and written in hexameter verse. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
He had swarmed up the column of my victory tripod, and, like the Pythia at Delphi, was sitting snugly in the bowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The names given to the tribes were the ten which the Pythia appointed out of the hundred selected national heroes. From Wordnik.com. [THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION] Reference
The matter boils down to this: can we accept the responses reported by Herodotos as genuine pronouncements of the Pythia?. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on the Oracle] Reference
Pillars shall be erected at Olympia, Pythia, the Isthmus, at Athens in the Acropolis, and at Lacedaemon in the temple at Amyclae. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Diana; of the Pythia of Delphos; and, in more remote antiquity, of the priestesses of Apollo, and even of the priestesses of Bacchus. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
I was careless when I set Dodds beside Rohde for the idea that the Dionysiac cult at Delphi inspired the alleged mediumship of the Pythia. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on the Oracle] Reference
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