Zeus was said to have determined the site of Delphi after he sought to find the center of his “Grandmother Earth” (Gaia). Credit: Facebook/Delphi Archaeological Museum Krisa itself is Middle Helladic, from 1,900 to 1,550 BC.Īccording to the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus, in the prologue of the “Eumenides,” the oracle had its origins in prehistoric times and the worship of the earth goddess, Gaia. Both Amphissa and Krisa are mentioned in the Iliad’s “Catalogue of Ships.” It was a Mycenaean stronghold. On the north side of the valley junction a spur of Parnassus looming over the valley made narrower by it is the site of ancient Krisa, which once was the ruling power of the entire valley.
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