Delphi offers one of the most extraordinary, paradoxical and, for many rationalists, embarrassing success stories from ancient Hellas. It was the centre, the omphalos, or navel, of the civilised world ...

THE BEAUTY OF travel has always been its unpredictability but, in the Covid era, unpredictable has taken on new meaning. In November 2021, finding myself able to travel again and desperate to escape ...

Balanchine regarded Apollo as his artistic coming of age. He said that through the creation of this work, he learned he could "dare not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate. . . to the one ...

Greek mythology tells how Zeus released two eagles at opposite ends of the world and they met at Delphi. Thus it was considered by the ancient Greeks to be at the very centre of the world. Over time ...

How a schoolteacher's epiphany at Delphi led him to worship Apollo By James Head A little over 18 years I first came to Ancient Delphi, and I have to admit that I only came on this first occasion for ...

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Classical Greek and Roman mythology. The son of Zeus and Leto, Apollo was said to be the god of archery, music and dance, ...

Balanchine regarded Apollo as his artistic coming of age. He said that through the creation of this work, he learned he could "dare not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate. . . to the one ...