"Pythia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... identifies her with the favour of the gods, but in such a way as to give the impression that it is only a facon de parler. Direct pronouncements of a free-thinking kind one would not expect from an orator and statesman, and yet Demosthenes was once bold enough to say that Pythia, the mouthpiece of the Delphic Oracle, was a partisan of Macedonia, an utterance which his opponent Aeschines, who liked to parade his orthodoxy, did not omit to cast in his teeth. On the whole, Aeschines liked to represent ...
— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann |
