The valley leading down to Itea. Tim, this is not an easy trek.

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo.

A statue of Apollo, himself, sitting on the oracle’s stool. It was part of the decoration of the pediment.
When I first read about the Oracle that sat on a 3-legged stool, I had the image of a haggard, drugged out, witch looking woman on a milk stool. Not the case as shown in this vase painting of a very elegant woman on a very elegant 3-legged stool. She supposedly sat over a steam opening in the earth (no evidence can be found to confirm this), chewing some trance inducing herbs. Her responses were not in normal Greek tongue and needed to be interpreted by a council of 6 wise men from the council of Delphi.

-B.Lee