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By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide to Ancient History since 1997

Delphic Oracle and the Constellation Delphinus

Thursday September 15, 2005
The Innovations Report article Secret of Delphi Found in Ancient Text reports that postgraduate students at the University of Leicester who have been reading their Hesiod, have determined that it would have been possible for the ancients to have consulted the constellations to figure out when was the right day to consult the oracle.

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