Pythia

Character · slug: pythia

After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
Ion and Creusa: Athenian Foundation (Euripides)
Heroes — Attic foundation / Erechtheid line · Attic tragic — Euripides *Ion* (+ Apollodorean genealogy of Xuthus and Ion)
Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
Glaucus of Sparta and the Delphic Temptation (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Spartan logos / Delphic morality tale · Herodotean — deposit, perjury contemplated, lineage extinguished
Euthymus and the Hero of Temesa (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Locrian / South Italian hero combat · Pausanian — haunted Temesa; Homeric sailor-daimon; boxer Euthymus frees the city
Croesus Tests the Oracles (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic prestige · Herodotean — lamb-and-tortoise riddle; Delphi and Amphiaraus proven true
Phalanthus and the Foundation of Taras
Local and lesser — Spartan colonial aetiology / Magna Graecia · Pausanian / Aristotelian *Politics* notices — Partheniae; oracle of rain from a clear sky; dolphin

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library