Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in the ancient town of Delphi. Most people lived in villages or in the countryside. Many Greeks were poor and life was hard ...
At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the city became a Greek colony. The city’s remains, which date mostly from the Hellenistic period, include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, an agora and a ...
People came from all over Greece and beyond to have their questions about the future answered by the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo ... with the worship of Greek gods also encouraged scholars ...