Remember when we were kids and everyone thought we would be traveling around on jetpacks? No one said, “When you grow up, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian artist Camillo Miola painted this scene depicting the ancient Oracle of Delphi in 1880. The oracle was the most revered ...

Charles Sandison, Garden of Pythia (work in progress). Courtesy of the artist. PCAI artwork commission Observer caught up with Athanasios Polychronopoulos, the founder of PCAI and a passionate patron ...

Before the Persian invasion, Athens faced panic, fear, and uncertainty. Then the Oracle of Delphi delivered a warning that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Built of stone, with relief styles on the walls and an impressive floor, the World Centre for Circular Economy and Culture is a ...

Bienen and Communication senior Mya Vandegrift’s “Pythia” premieres as a fusion of opera and musical theatre Thursday. As Communication junior and producer Nora James Eikner describes, the performance ...

Ancient writers claimed the Oracle of Delphi entered trances after inhaling vapors from the earth. Modern scientists tested whether geological gases could explain her visions. Early studies suggested ...

For centuries, people traveled to Delphi in southern Greece hoping for a glimpse of their future. There, at the temple of the god Apollo, a priestess was said to enter a trance and issue prophecies in ...

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 ...