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DELPHI IS A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CENTER. IT IS SECOND ONLY TO ACROPOILIS OF ATHENS IN IMPORTANCE IN ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY.
The remains of ancient Delphi. The ancient Greeks thought this was the center of the world. The complex is on the slops of Mount Parnassus. The valley is the Pleistos River Valley If you zoom in over that little stone pillar, you can see the Delphic Tholos. Not easily accessible from where you can park.
Went to this beautiful falls that I hadn't visited in 25 years when it was was privately owned. Doris and I back then "charmed" the owners into letting us on to the property.
Now the falls in part of a county park and anyone can go there.
I felt I had to put this forward to bring attention to the shameful decision by the Greek Government (obedient to their European political masters) to sell off the land around the battleground of Thermopylae for a few euros.
I hope that there will be an outcry from the Greek people that our heritage is not for sale, at any price!
Before becoming overshadowed by Apollo's oracle, Delphi was home to the Gaian oracle (devoted to the earth goddess). To explain this transition, the Greeks used to myth of the python.
Things always begin with an infidelity by Zeus -- this time, with Leto. His wife Hera, furious as always, sent the sacred Gaian python after Leto so she could not give birth to Zues' twins (Apollo and Artemis) "anywhere the sun shone." Leto sneakily gave birth on Delos island, but the python remained a problem.
So Apollo killed it...in Delphi, where the oracle to Gaia stood. Since the python was an earth spirit, and Apollo conquered it, this myth explains how Apollos temple was literally built over the the grave of another.
In this picture, notice the (later) temple to Apollo standing on higher ground than the tholos of Athena Pronaia, once used for Gaian worship. The Apollonian oracle literally overshadows the earlier shrine.
Delphi Falls is a pretty new park, founded in Manlius NY in 2018. After the torrential rainfall of summer 2021, I got to see it at its best!
Photo taken with a 3 stop ND filter and a CP filter, stacked to get it reaaaalllly contrasty.
Ο Παυσανίας αναφέρει ότι ο θησαυρός χτίστηκε από τα λάφυρα της μεγάλης αθηναϊκής νίκης επί των Περσών στον Μαραθώνα.
They are called "treasuries" because they held the offerings made to Apollo
After dreaming of Greece for so long it was overwhelming to actually be there. I just wanted to stare and shoot off a thousand tourist shots. My challenge with this wide angle shot was to appreciate all the amazing details created thousands of years ago when I was surrounded by so many incredible things and wanted to get them all in the viewfinder. In the background is the Athenian Treasury.
Photographer at work, Susan at Delphi, Jul 1974
photo by Mary Lou
4800 dpi scan of Ilford PanF negative Pentax Spotmatic w/50mm standard lens
Delphi on Mount Parnassus, Greece. An ancient theater is in the foreground. Behind that is the Temple of Apollo, in which virgin maidens received the pronouncements from the Oracle of the God himself.
After a 16 hour flight and a 3 hour drive our first stop was Delphi. Hoping for the famous blue skies of Greece but greeted with overcast and thundershowers. You have to take what is presented thus this being one of my first photographs in Greece and the ancient site of Delphi.
Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronoia, Delphi November 1972 4800 dpi scans of Kodak PlusX negatives