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Art History Professor Miguel Ángel Elvira Barba evokes Delphi, a city that combines its urban and religious character. The lecture invites you to tour, with Pausanias and Plutarch as guides, the city until you reach the sanctuary dedicated to Apollo. 8:50 Beginnings as a religious centre and Mycenaean cult 15:04 The gymnasium and the Pythian Games 27:14 Sacred place of pan-Hellenic meeting 46:24 Temple of Apollo: the oracle of the Pythia 56:51 Origins of oracle divination #delphi #ancientgreece #foundationmarch #lamarch Subscribe to La March's official YouTube channel! / @lamarch More about History and Geography at • History and Geography https://www.march.es/es/madrid/confer... February 5, 2013 Juan March Foundation, Madrid ____________ Subscribe to our newsletter: http://www.march.es/boletines Follow us on: Twitter: / fundacionmarch Facebook: / fundacionmarch Medium: / fundacionjuanmarch Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/17uhaPM... Also visit Canal March at http://canal.march.es to discover thousands of audio recordings of conferences held at the Juan March Foundation since 1975