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	Sacred Places: Delphi, Greece
		Inside was the adyton, the centre of the Delphic oracle and seat of Pythia.
		The sacred spring of Delphi lies in the ravine of the Phaedriades.
		The preserved remains of two monumental fountains that received the water from the spring date to the Archaic period and the Roman era.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /sacredplaces/delphi.html (285 words)

	George Seferis - Delphi
		From the East and the North it is closed by the Phaedriades: Hyambeia, which descends like the prow of a big ship and cuts the ravine; the northern Rodini, which almost touches the Stadium.
		Yet, the Phaedriades shine, as does the dry rock of Parnassus, and higher up in the air two eagles with outstretched, immobile wings move slowly in the azure sky like the eagles that Zeus once set free so that they would show him the centre of the world.
		You turn again toward the Phaedriades that you looked at and looked at again throughout the day, and especially at high noon, when they shine, dry, when the old mirrors have found all their power again.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/seferis_delphi.html (3598 words)

	Delphi - LoveToKnow 1911
		DELPHI (the Pytho of Homer and Herodotus; in Boeotian inscriptions BeXcboi, on coins AaX001), a place in ancient Greece in the territory of Phocis, famous as the seat of the most important temple and oracle of Apollo.
		inland from the shores of the Corinthian Gulf, in a rugged and romantic glen, closed on the N. by the steep wall-like under-cliffs of Mount Parnassus known as the Phaedriades or Shining Rocks, on the E. and W. by two minor ridges or spurs, and on the S. by the irregular heights of Mount Cirphis.
		Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Delphi (2291 words)

	PHAEDRIADES Articles In Greece, the Phaedriades ("the sh
		In Greece, the Phaedriades ("the shining ones") were the pair of cliffs, ca 700 m high on the lower southern slope of Mt. Parnassos, which enclose the sacred site of Delphi, the center of the Hellenic world.
		Strabo, Plutarch and Pausanias all mentioned the Phaedriades in describing the site, a narrow valley of the Pleistus (today Xeropotamos) formed by Parnasse and Mt. Cirphis.
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	www.amazines.com /Phaedriades_related.html (334 words)

	Delphi
		The city is located on a plateau on the slope of Mount Parnassus which is located net to the Sanctuary of Apollo and the site of the famed ancient Oracle.
		The semi circle spur is called Phaedriades and it has a great view of the Pleistos Valley.
		Located about 15 kilometers away and southwest of Delphi sits the harbor city of Kirrha on the Corinthian Gulf.
	www.entergreece.com /article/6238/delphi (512 words)

	Delphi, Greece
		The Castalian Spring is between the two sanctuaries.
		The most ancient sacred site at Delphi, and perhaps the reason the site was chosen as the abode of Apollo, is the sacred Castalian Spring that wells up in a ravine in the Phaedriades mountains.
		It is connected with the chemical vapors that arise from the earth to inspire the Pythia's oracles (see "The Oracle," below).
	www.sacred-destinations.com /greece/delphi.htm (2744 words)

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