Delphi the center of the word

 It is in the territory of Phocis  The town it self is located on the side of Mount Parnassus  Delphi is located right next to the Gulf of Corinth so they had some sea access  They h

The Center of the

World

By: Kelly Orr 9/24/13 to Delphi

1500 BCE – 392 AD.

 It is in the territory of Phocis

 The town it self is located on the side of Mount Parnassus

 Delphi is located right next to the Gulf of Corinth so they had some sea access

 They had a lot of land because of the government’s power

 Delphi has a usual Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters

 During 8th c B.C Delphi became internationally known for Pythia the priestess who sat on a tripod and muttered incomprehensible words that foretold the future

 No decision was made with out first asking Pythia

 Delphi thought that before they prepared for anything and before they did anything that they had to ask Pythia

 The four main governments of the time were Dictatorship,

Democracy(created by Athens), Monarchy and oligarchy

 Ancient Delphi was governed by aristocrats who were members of

a 12 member federation known as the Amphictyonia whose main task was to unify the small city-states, so Delphi was an oligarchy

 The Amphictyonia had a lot of land and had great influence on a few things for other city states

Food Sources

 They were farmers and like most Greek city-states their main crop was olives

 They also fished and traded with other city states

 Like others they made a lot of money off of shipping olive products and wheat overseas

 Their main meats were sheep, cow, chicken and

turkey

 They ate fish, meat, poultry, eggs, olives, wheat and many other foods too because they had many

natural resources and they could trade with other areas

 The people of Delphi believed that when Apollo slayed the dragon that had been

guarding the oracle that he built a shrine there where his sacred flame was never

supposed to go out

 The main god of Delphi was Apollo

 The sanctuary of Delphi was part of the Amphictyonia alliance which protected the site

from many invaders and it protected the site form the people who lived around it

 The Oracle of Delphi was so important that the people who lived there thought that they

had to be living at the center of the world

 The first temple was built in the 7th century BCE and was a replacement for

other temples which were smaller

 Both temples the old one and the new ones were both in Doric style

 The theatre there was so big it could hold 5,000 people

 And the stadium was so big that it could hold 7,000 people

 Delphi had over 20 treasuries for all of their gold

 The main style for all of the major buildings in Delphi was Doric

 The best structure in all of Delphi was the tholos in the sanctuary of Athena

Pronaia, its columns stand at 13.5 meters tall

Social Structure

 The social structure was generally broken up into 3 different classes in most cases, slaves, free people (who owned slaves), and upperclassmen (nobles, royals, dictators, rich people, etc.)

 The 12 rulers of Delphi were the main people in charge and therefore they were at the top of the social pyramid

The Arts

 Delphi was known for their intricate almost life like statues of people

 They made huge joyful paintings to hang on their walls and in their temples

 They also had a huge market where all kinds of art was sold

 Their art was Doric style

 The ancient Greeks were the first European civilization to use and alphabet for their writing

 There were three major dialects in ancient Greece, Aeolic, Doric and Ionic

 However mostly all Greeks spoke the same language and used the same style

of writing

 They recorded their writing on blocks of stone that were cut away from rocks

 An amazing feat for Delphi back then was the huge 13.5 meter columns at the tholos in the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia

 The people of Delphi were also able to carve out a huge theater

in the side of Mount Parnassus

 Another huge feat that Delphi had was that they were able to make 1.80 cm tall statues that had incredible detail and were almost life like

 At first the people of ancient Delphi simply stuck their arrows in

a toxic plant that was growing near their village but overtime they got more advanced and made metal weapons made from bronze and other metals

 The people of Delphi also used terrace farming and a complex irrigation system to water their crops

 Delphi was known for all of its oracles ,people who told the

future.(However, the oracles were only like that because Delphi was built on top of a natural gas line, so basically they all inhaled

to much ethylene gasses)

 According to mythology, Zeus sent out two Eagles from the ends

of the universe to find the center of the world and the found

Delphi

 For many centuries it was considered the best cultural and

religious center and symbol of unity for the Hellenic world

 The End!!! 

Thanks!!!