Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bear out this supposition, for the records on the style show absolutely no trace of medical practice. The cures were simple miracles. The whole matter is very well illustrated by the present annual pilgrimages of sick people to the island of Tenos, to be healed at the shrine of the Madonna. A plan of Epidauros and a number of bas-reliefs were shown to the audience by means of the stereopticon...
...constructed. Only a single chamber, the one containing the oracle, was saved from the fire and this was built into the new temple. Apollo was the chief deity but there are some proofs that Bacchus was worshiped there before Apollo. People of all nations worshiped at the shrine and so many presents were given that in the time of Pliny, after Delphi had been plundered many times, there remained three thousand. The excavations so far have revealed a wall 13 feet high and 500 feet long which formed the upper terrace upon which the temple was built. The positions...
...people of that age it is no wonder that they appeared to come direct from a deity. It was not only from the near-lying states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys with rich presents to seek aid from the oracle, and states sent their ambassadors to ask aid in the direction of public affairs. The temple could not but become immensely wealthy with such a revenue continually pouring into it. The riches...
...intention of raising funds for the purchase of the right to excavate over the site of Delphi that Professor C. E. Norton of the University visited New York recently. His idea is to retain for American archaeologists the sole privilege of excavating on the site of the famous shrine. The English, Germans and French all have their particular spots upon which they are now carrying on their researches; while America is being distanced in this praiseworthy effort for the extension of knowledge concerning the relics of ancient art and learning. Dr. Schliemann, the eminent German excavator. has already conferred...
...Shrine of our weakness, fortress of our powers...