--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > The Oracle at Delphi (I choose to interpret this > symbolically, even though I am sure the O at D > was really tuned in) was saying that Socrates > occupies a particular and privileged place in > Athenian society—and, one must presume at that > time, throughout the whole world [I am trusting > this Oracle at Delphi guy because has gravitas]
Minor point: "The Oracle at Delphi guy" was actually a dame, known as the Phythia or Priestess of Delphi. According to Wikipedia, there's some controversy among historians as to whether her ecstatic babblings had to be interpreted by (male) priests, or whether she spoke perfectly intelligibly in response to the questions put to her. But the personage who spoke sitting on a high stool perched over a chasm in the rock, supposedly inhaling the mysterious entrancing vapors that arose from it, was most definitely female. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/John_Collier_-\ _Priestess_of_Delphi.jpg/220px-John_Collier_-_Priestess_of_Delphi.jpg] </wiki/File:John_Collier_-_Priestess_of_Delphi.jpg>
