Pythian Definition

pĭthē-ən
adjective
Of Apollo as patron of Delphi and the oracle located there.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the games held at Delphi every four years by the ancient Greeks in honor of Apollo.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the Pythian games.
American Heritage

Origin of Pythian

  • From Latin Pȳthius from Greek Pūthios from Pūthō , ancient name of Delphi

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pythian Sentence Examples

  • With the same idea he built the temple of the Pythian Apollo and began, though he did not finish, the temple of Zeus (the magnificent columns now standing belong to the age of Hadrian).

  • Among other Greek remains in the island may be mentioned, besides the great inscription, the archaic temple of the Pythian Apollo at Gortyna, a plain square building with a pronaos added in later times, excavated by Halbherr G 3' ?

  • Pindar, in the fourth Pythian ode, gives the oldest detailed account of it.

  • It is given at some length in the fourth Pythian ode of Pindar, and forms the subject of the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.

  • The questions had to be given in writing, and the responses were uttered by the Pythian priestess, in early times a maiden, later a woman over fifty attired as a maiden.

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