Podcasts about Mount Parnassus

Step into the smoke-filled temple of Apollo and meet the Oracle of Delphi, the most mysterious and feared fortune-teller in the ancient world. Kings, generals, and philosophers all climbed Mount Parnassus to hear her cryptic prophecies—some of which shaped the course of history. But was the Oracle really channeling the gods, or just really high on volcanic fumes? In today's episode Ben and Pat unravel the truth behind ancient Greece's most powerful mystic, the riddles that baffled empires, and the wildest predictions that actually came true.

Step into the smoke-filled temple of Apollo and meet the Oracle of Delphi, the most mysterious and feared fortune-teller in the ancient world. Kings, generals, and philosophers all climbed Mount Parnassus to hear her cryptic prophecies—some of which shaped the course of history. But was the Oracle really channeling the gods, or just really high on volcanic fumes? In today's episode, Ben and Pat unravel the truth behind ancient Greece's most powerful mystic, the riddles that baffled empires, and the wildest predictions that actually came true

Zeus has just about had enough of humanity- perhaps set off by a human sacrifice incident- and decides it's time to wipe the slate clean. With water. Lots of it. But one son of Prometheus isn't going to be swept away that easily... Sources for this episode: Blennow, A. (date unknown), Exiled words and lost worlds- the tale of Sappho in Sicily. Språkens magi 31. Bye, O., YouTube (2015), History of the World: Every Year (online) (Accessed 11/02/2024). Cellauro, L. (2003), Iconographical aspects of the Renaissance villa and garden: Mount Parnassus, Pegasus and the Muses. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 23(1): 42-56. Cory, I. P. (1828), The Ancient Fragments; containing what remains of the writing of Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Abydenus, Megasthenes, and Manetho. Also the Hermetic Creed, the Old Chronicle, the Laterculus of Erastosthenes, the Tyrian Annals, the Oracles of Zoroaster, and the Periplus of Hanno. London: William Pickering. The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2013), Mount Parnassus (online) (Accessed 18/01/2024). The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2023), Mount Ararat (online) (Accessed 18/01/2024). Evelyn-White, H. G. (1943), Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. London: William Heinemann Ltd. Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I). London: William Heinemann. Guerber, H. A. (1929), The Myths of Greece & Rome: Their Stories Signification and Origin. London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. Oldfather, C. H. (1989), Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes. Volume I: Books I and II, 1-34. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, UK: Harvard University Press. Riley, H. T. (1889), The Metamorphoses (Ovid), Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes and Explanations. London: George Bell & Sons. Rosenberg, D. (1994), World Mythology: An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics (3rd edition). Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Publishing Group. Walbank, F., Encyclopedia Britannica (2024), Alexander the Great (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown (1888), The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Author unknown, The Met (date unknown), List of Rulers of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown, National Geographic Society (updated 2023), Mount Everest (online) (Accessed 18/01/2024). Author unknown, Theoi (date unknown), HESIONE PRONOEA (Pronoia)- Oceanid Nymph of Greek Mythology (online) (Accessed 18/01/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Ahmose I (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Clymene (mythology) (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Cranaus (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Deucalion (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Hesione (Oceanid) (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024). Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), List of kings of Macedonia (online) (Accessed 15/01/2024).

Thursday, 27 April 2023   Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. Acts 16:16   Note: The verbs in the NKJV don't give the sense of the Greek. A closer rendering would be, “Now it happened of us going to the prayer, a certain girl, having a spirit of Python, met us, who was bringing her masters much gain by fortune-telling” (CG). This will be used for the analysis.   In the previous verse, Lydia asked Paul and those with him to stay at her house. The events that now take place occur during that time. Luke's words say, “Now it happened of us going to the prayer.”   The meaning of “the prayer” is argued whether it means a specific place of prayer, such as “to the place of prayer,” or if it is simply a way of saying they were going out to pray as we might say, “we are going to the church” or simply, “we are going to church.” Either way, the point is that they were heading out and were going for the purpose of prayer. On their way, it next says, “a certain girl, having a spirit of Python, met us.”   The Greek word puthón is seen only here. It comes from Putho, the region where the famous oracle of Delphi was located. Thus, it is a spirit of Python. Of this spirit, Vincent's Word Studies gives a detailed explanation –   “Python, in the Greek mythology, was the serpent which guarded Delphi. According to the legend, as related in the Homeric hymn, Apollo descended from Olympus in order to select a site for his shrine and oracle. Having fixed upon a spot on the southern side of Mount Parnassus, he found it guarded by a vast and terrific serpent, which he slew with an arrow, and suffered its body to rot (πυθεῖν) in the sun. Hence the name of the serpent Python (rotting); Pytho, the name of the place, and the epithet Pythian, applied to Apollo. The name Python was subsequently used to denote a prophetic demon, and was also used of soothsayers who practised ventriloquism, or speaking from the belly. The word ἐγγαστρίμυθος, ventriloquist, occurs in the Septuagint, and is rendered having a familiar spirit (see Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6, 27; 1 Samuel 28:7, 8). The heathen inhabitants of Philippi regarded the woman as inspired by Apollo; and Luke, in recording this ease, which came under his own observation, uses the term which would naturally suggest itself to a Greek physician, a Python-spirit, presenting phenomena identical with the convulsive movements and wild cries of the Pythian priestess at Delphi.”   Of this girl, it next says, “who was bringing her masters much gain.” As such, this made her a valuable asset to them. The source of the ability to make a profit from her was less important to them than the profit they made. How that source was able to make this profit through her was “by fortune-telling.”   The Greek verb is only found here, manteuomai. The word is derived from the word mainomai, raving mad, or to speak as a madman. One can see the root of the modern word mania or maniac. Of this word, Cambridge states –   “The word is only found here in the N. T., and wherever it occurs in the LXX. it is always used of the words of lying prophets (Deuteronomy 18:10; 1 Samuel 28:8; Ezekiel 13:6; Ezekiel 13:23; Micah 3:11); so that here we are constrained to take it in the same sense ‘by pretending to foretell the future.'”   This is an incorrect analysis. The account in 1 Samuel 28 is that of the witch of En Dor. There, the text is clear that the prophet Samuel was raised. Whether the witch raised him or whether the Lord allowed it to happen can be debated. She certainly seemed surprised when it occurred. Also, when the practice is forbidden in Deuteronomy 18, it makes no distinction between a lying prophet or one who truly taps into the supernatural realm –   “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.” Deuteronomy 18:10, 11   These words of Deuteronomy simply forbid the practice, but they do not speak as to whether these things are false or not. In this case here in Acts, the words of the girl will be true. How she determined it can be debated, but what happens as a result of her continued words demonstrates that the spirit she possessed, had possession of her.   Life application: Whether such a spirit is real or not is less important than the fact that the matter is not of God. If it is the act of a charlatan, it is not of God. If it is a true evil spirit, it is not of God. Debating which spirit is real and which is false is pointless. What matters is that we are not to seek out such things. Their purpose is to direct people's attention away from what is good. This is why the law of Moses forbids them. Likewise, Paul warns against associations with such things as well. For example, he says –   “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.” 2 Corinthians 6:14-16   Our allegiances are to be directed to Jesus Christ. Our thoughts are to be centered on Him and His word. To mix our lives with any other supposed spiritual realm, whether true or false, can only lead us away from a sound walk with Him. The Lord, through Isaiah, says it beautifully –   “And when they say to you, ‘Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,' should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:19, 20   Let us pay heed! Let us focus on God's word. In this, we will do well.   Heavenly Father, help us to keep our focus on that which is right and proper. May we not get distracted by those things which can never profit our walk with You. In all things, may our lives be filled with You and Your goodness. Amen.  

Acts 16:16-18As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” 18 And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.The pythonessLuke actually writes that the slave girl had a "python spirit" because of her association with oracle giving. It is referred to the snake that guarded the temple of Ancient Greek God Apollo on Mount Parnassus.The oracle at Delphi in Greece was reputedly guarded by a serpent or dragon, Apollo, in Greek mythology, killed the serpent and thus became the successor to the serpent's oracular power.He was thought to be embodied in the snake and to inspire 'pythonesses' - female devotees with powers as mediums and clairvoyants.She said, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation” indeed. Taking this fact in mind, what was Paul so annoyed about? Was he literally, annoyed with the slave girl?The casting outPaul was "deeply troubled." So Paul turned around and said to the spirit (not to the girl), "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" The results are immediate."And it came out at that very moment"--this demon obeys the words of Paul. Here Luke is demonstrating Paul's authority over the fallen spirit world. What we have here are servants of the Most High God defeating the python spiritThis woman, this slave girl, brought a great deal of money to her owners because of her ability to tell fortunes. Paul took away her value. She was a commodity to her owners and Paul treated her the same way.Paul saw what was wrong with the slave-girl, addressed the real issue, and allowed God to use him to set her free from demonic possession. That's what we should be doing, too.DivinationDeuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcererDivination in any form is sin. It is not harmless entertainment or an alternate source of wisdom. Christians should avoid any practice related to divination, including fortune-telling, astrology, witchcraft, tarot cards, necromancy, and spell-casting.Jeremiah 14:14And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit myeveningdevotional.substack.com

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 405, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The "Del"S 1: Erase, erase, erase, perhaps with the touch of a button. delete. 2: Major party nominees for president are decided by these representatives. delegates. 3: These false beliefs might be of grandeur or of persecution. delusions. 4: It's another term for a flood, especially the biblical one. a deluge. 5: This Ancient Greek town on Mount Parnassus was the site of a famous oracle. Delphi. Round 2. Category: Yesterday 1: An April 1971 visit by a team of players of this game was part of a thaw in U.S.-China relations. Ping-pong (table tennis). 2: In 1915 this Michigan industrialist chartered a "peace ship" and sailed off to stop WWI. Henry Ford. 3: This British naval hero lost an eye during the capture of Corsica in 1794. Lord Nelson. 4: Zulu Prince Shaka conquered much of southern Africa when he adapted this throwing weapon for stabbing. Spear. 5: He first led his red-shirted Italian legion in the 1840s, fighting for Uruguay against Argentina. Giuseppe Garibaldi. Round 3. Category: Born In The '60s 1: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group. Run-D.M.C.. 2: After the 1996 election, this 35-year-old Clinton adviser moved to ABC News. George Stephanopoulos. 3: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned. Garry Kasparov. 4: 1 of the 2 30-something female leads of "The English Patient". Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott-Thomas. 5: 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994. Microsoft. Round 4. Category: "B" Movies 1: 1968:Steve McQueen fires on all cylinders as a San Francisco cop in search of a killer mobster. Bullitt. 2: Burt Lancaster film in which his only friends were feathered. Birdman of Alcatraz. 3: A dimwitted shut-in becomes the toast of Washington, D.C. society in this comedy starring Peter Sellers. Being There. 4: As Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck sets out to breed a new race of Hitlers in this thriller. The Boys from Brazil. 5: Stanley Kubrick's directorial style in this 1975 movie mimicked the detached manner of 18th century English painters. Barry Lyndon. Round 5. Category: Savants 1: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", he wrote in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Martin Luther King (Jr.). 2: In January 1904 these 2 inventors issued a statement about their success at Kitty Hawk, but it got little attention. the Wright Brothers. 3: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject", said this wartime British P.M.. Churchill. 4: This Austrian learned to play harpsichord at age 4, was composing at 5 and played for his Empress at 6. Mozart. 5: One of you will look like a savant when you I.D. this ancient Greek who used Socrates as a spokesman in his "Republic". Plato. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

This week join Jeff, Dave, and Toto on a climb up the fragrant slopes of Mount Parnassus to consult what was the premier divination site in the ancient Mediterranean—the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. But you don't just barge on in and start a-consulting left and right; there are purifications to be made, various deities to appease, hearts and brains to find, and sacrifices to offer. Only then you may ask your question of Delph the Great and Powerful. So come along, take in the view, and hope our answers to long-standing questions are more straight-forward than what poor old Croesus got. Also, ask yourself how far would you travel and how long would you stand in line to find out "who stole the sheet"?

Many people in the ancient world sought counsel from Delphi’s oracle on Mount Parnassus, about 75 miles west of Athens. Its priestess claimed to speak for the God Apollo and prophesied in a trance state after breathing fumes from a crevice in the mountain. The oracle’s messages were often obscure and could be interpreted in many ways. Unlike the Delphi oracle, the church’s prophets spoke clearly so that people would be strengthened, encouraged, and comforted (v. 3). New Testament scholar Leon Morris explains that the New Testament practice of prophecy was similar to preaching but not identical with it: “It is not the delivery of a carefully prepared sermon, but the uttering of words directly inspired by God.” Those who spoke in tongues, on the other hand, could not be understood unless there was someone present who was able to interpret (v. 5). For this reason, the apostle urged the church to prefer prophecy over tongues (vv. 1, 19). Paul also provided guidelines for the practice of tongues and prophecy when the church met together. No more than three were to speak in tongues, one at a time and only when an interpreter was present. If there was no interpreter, the speaker should “keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God” (v. 28). Likewise, no more than two or three prophets were to speak as others tested the validity of their message (v. 29). Paul’s command in verse 34 that women in the congregation “should remain silent in the churches” is not absolute. Earlier in this letter, he gave guidelines for women who prayed and prophesied in the assembly (1 Cor. 11:5, 13). The basic rule for exercising spiritual gifts was that “everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way” (v. 40). >> The church’s ministry must be built on the solid foundation of God’s Word. Spend a few minutes praying for those who will be ministering the Word in your church this week.

The new episode of “Pythian School of Futures” compares ancient oracular practices with forecast methodologies devised by modern institutions, i.e. think tanks. Denis Maksimov examines the foresight of oracles who were believed to be gifted with the ability to provide intelligent and insightful advice or prophetic prescience. He sees their anticipatory speculations as paragons of calculated predictions, to be employed by data scientists and financial analysts in the contemporary world, and poses questions about how the future is produced Episode Notes: Delphi is located at the foot of Mount Parnassus in Greece and civilization is considered the center of the world as Delphi. This area, formerly known as "Pytho" was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi The name of Pythia originates from the Iliad and the Odyssey legend, which is considered as the holy book of Greek mythology. Pythia was the godmother of Apollo, the god of beauty. She was the high priestess of the temple of Apollo and is often referred to as the Delphic Oracle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia The Delphic oracle had substantial influence in Ancient Greece because her delirious comments were thought of as prophecies that had decisive effects on worldly matters. People in Greek civilization were visiting Delphi to seek guidance about their problems. They submitted to Pythia as her institution was believed to be able to direct the future. Delphic Oracles were able to give elaborate predictions about politics, economics, culture, and military tactics as well as through insights about history at a hefty price. McKinsey & Company is an American global management consulting company, founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey that advises on strategic management to corporations, governments, and other organizations. He conceived the idea after witnessing inefficiencies in military suppliers while working for the U.S. Army Ordnance Department. The company advises on using accounting principles as a management tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/overview RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. The establishment is financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations, universities and private individuals. The company researches and develops solutions for other governments, international organizations, private companies and foundations with a host of defense and non-defense issues, including healthcare. https://www.rand.org/about.html Produced by Lara Huz | Sound Production by Barış Tan | Music by Arsan Sağlar

Today , Athens-based storyteller Marsha takes us on a journey back to ancient Greek with her phenomenal Oracle of Delphi. Minimalistic, deep in its taste and mysteriously colorful: Marsha brings storytelling through music & magic. She believes that human beings need music, stories and magic in the same way that plants need sun and rain. It was her mix for Deep House Athens, which is run by Marsha by the way, that impressed us and since then we wanted her to mix a delicious Schirmchendrink. She definitely is an artist with a delicate taste, tremendous creativity and a unique sound who found her own place in the world of deep electronic music. In Athens, she is running her own music club project called 'Marsha Invites" and she is a DJ at Home 89.1 radio. She is a member of Playground Greece team, and, being a true Yoga lover, she co-founded the Music & Yoga Project, where she provides the electronic music soundtrack to professional yoga classes. For this exclusive Schirmchendrink episode and together with her bartender friend Goozy (https://www.instagram.com/goozy85), Marsha invented this cocktail “Oracle of Delphi” (picture credits go to https://www.instagram.com/_ambrosialis_). Here is the recipe: • Mastiha infused with butterfly pea tea • Oracle syrup • Plum bitters • Oleander leaves Delphi was an important ancient Greek religious sanctuary sacred to the god Apollo. Located on Mount Parnassus, the sanctuary was home to the famous oracle of Apollo, which gave cryptic predictions and guidance to both city-states and individuals. Thanks to Pythia’s prestige, Delphi became the richest and most famous Hellenic sanctuary. The Greeks called it the Omphalos, or “Navel, center of the world.” Pythia was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as the oracle, also known as the Oracle of Delphi. Pythia spoke on behalf of the Gods and delivered oracles. She was falling into a prophetic trance by using oleander as a complement during the oracular procedure, chewing its leaves and inhaling their smoke. We love creative minds, we love storytelling, and, we love Marsha! This one just has it all. Thank you for this fantastic sip and mesmerizing journey! Cheers! The bartenders Link up! Marsha https://www.soundcloud.com/marsha_magic https://www.facebook.com/MarshaMagic https://www.instagram.com/marsha__magic Schirmchendrink https://www.soundcloud.com/schirmchendrink https://www.facebook.com/schirmchendrink https://www.instagram.com/schirmchendrink

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn presents us with the beliefs and claims that have developed Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Walden Pond, Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, courthouses, laboratories, and several other places across the globe as truth-spots. The advancement of technology has improved human travel and allows humans access to almost anywhere around the globe. An improvement in human mobility allows more people to access truth-spots that would otherwise be unavailable. This access paired with mass media has heightened human awareness to claims humans make about their accounts of truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn provides an account of how he views the automobile and other modes of transportation contributing to the creation and conservation of truth-spots. Dr. Tom Gieryn is Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritis at Indiana University. Michael O. Johnston is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is currently conducting research on the continuous process that occurs with placemaking at farmers’ market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn presents us with the beliefs and claims that have developed Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Walden Pond, Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, courthouses, laboratories, and several other places across the globe as truth-spots. The advancement of technology has improved human travel and allows humans access to almost anywhere around the globe. An improvement in human mobility allows more people to access truth-spots that would otherwise be unavailable. This access paired with mass media has heightened human awareness to claims humans make about their accounts of truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn provides an account of how he views the automobile and other modes of transportation contributing to the creation and conservation of truth-spots. Dr. Tom Gieryn is Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritis at Indiana University. Michael O. Johnston is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is currently conducting research on the continuous process that occurs with placemaking at farmers’ market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn presents us with the beliefs and claims that have developed Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Walden Pond, Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, courthouses, laboratories, and several other places across the globe as truth-spots. The advancement of technology has improved human travel and allows humans access to almost anywhere around the globe. An improvement in human mobility allows more people to access truth-spots that would otherwise be unavailable. This access paired with mass media has heightened human awareness to claims humans make about their accounts of truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn provides an account of how he views the automobile and other modes of transportation contributing to the creation and conservation of truth-spots. Dr. Tom Gieryn is Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritis at Indiana University. Michael O. Johnston is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is currently conducting research on the continuous process that occurs with placemaking at farmers’ market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn presents us with the beliefs and claims that have developed Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Walden Pond, Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, courthouses, laboratories, and several other places across the globe as truth-spots. The advancement of technology has improved human travel and allows humans access to almost anywhere around the globe. An improvement in human mobility allows more people to access truth-spots that would otherwise be unavailable. This access paired with mass media has heightened human awareness to claims humans make about their accounts of truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn provides an account of how he views the automobile and other modes of transportation contributing to the creation and conservation of truth-spots. Dr. Tom Gieryn is Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritis at Indiana University. Michael O. Johnston is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is currently conducting research on the continuous process that occurs with placemaking at farmers’ market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn presents us with the beliefs and claims that have developed Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Walden Pond, Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, courthouses, laboratories, and several other places across the globe as truth-spots. The advancement of technology has improved human travel and allows humans access to almost anywhere around the globe. An improvement in human mobility allows more people to access truth-spots that would otherwise be unavailable. This access paired with mass media has heightened human awareness to claims humans make about their accounts of truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn provides an account of how he views the automobile and other modes of transportation contributing to the creation and conservation of truth-spots. Dr. Tom Gieryn is Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritis at Indiana University. Michael O. Johnston is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is currently conducting research on the continuous process that occurs with placemaking at farmers’ market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn presents us with the beliefs and claims that have developed Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Walden Pond, Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, courthouses, laboratories, and several other places across the globe as truth-spots. The advancement of technology has improved human travel and allows humans access to almost anywhere around the globe. An improvement in human mobility allows more people to access truth-spots that would otherwise be unavailable. This access paired with mass media has heightened human awareness to claims humans make about their accounts of truth-spots. Dr. Gieryn provides an account of how he views the automobile and other modes of transportation contributing to the creation and conservation of truth-spots. Dr. Tom Gieryn is Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritis at Indiana University. Michael O. Johnston is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is currently conducting research on the continuous process that occurs with placemaking at farmers’ market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are thrilled to be interviewing Tim Dew from Games Without Frontiers. Tim started Games Without Frontiers to rapidly accelerate the way that people learn. It works on two key principles: 1. That the only way you can get someone to believe in an idea is to believe it was theirs in the first place and, 2. That we only learn through experience. Rocket, our first learning platform, teaches teams of people how to run a whole business in a single day. It's being hailed as the future of learning by qualification authorities. 26 weeks of trade happen in 26 minutes - it's fast and furious, fun and you'll learn more in a day than months attending traditional training courses. Their clients are using it for teambuilding, commercial education across wholse organisations and as method of winning new clients.

Stories of Mount Sutro in San Francisco's Inner Sunset District. Once called Mount Parnassus, it is covered with the ghostly Sutro Forest.

Clio, Erato, Polyhymnia–among the nine muses of Greek mythology, there’s no muse for the essay.  And that’s not only because the essay doesn’t appear, in name, until Montaigne publishes his first book of them in 1580.  No, one gets the feeling that, even if Homer had composed essays about the wine-dark sea or rosy-fingered dawn, this literary genre, so often associated with five-paragraph structures and freshmen composition courses, still wouldn’t have a goddess representing it on Mount Parnassus.  The essay, unlike the epic or the love poem, is just too pedestrian, too workaday and uninspired to find a place among the timeless arts. That doesn’t stop Ned Stuckey-French from championing of the essay.  In fact, for Stuckey-French, the middling nature of the essay is one of its very virtues.  In his study The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), he gives us a vision of the essay as a genre that’s as plucky and adaptable as the American spirit itself, showing us how writers and readers reinvented it at the beginning of the twentieth century for a new nation, one teeming with Ford motorcars and weekly magazines and a growing middleclass, eager for writing that spoke to its fears and desires.  Stuckey-French shows us how and why the essay, that creation of a Renaissance French aristocrat, becomes an American essay, a democratic genre, able to take the pulse of our bustling nation. And if this social history of the essay weren’t enough, Stuckey-French has also published, with his co-editor Carl Klaus, an anthology of Essayists on the Essay (University of Iowa Press, 2012), a collection of writing that begins with Montaigne and takes us right up to the present, where the essay is once again adapting to a new world, one of web browsers and blogs, smartphones and video.  And yet the essay lives on, undaunted, ready to take up the challenges of our new century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle, the most important source of prophecies in the ancient world. In central Greece, on the flank of Mount Parnassus, lies the ruined city of Delphi. For over a thousand years, between approximately 800 BC and 400 AD, this was the most sacred place in the ancient world. Its chief attraction was the Delphic Oracle, which predicted the future and offered petitioners advice.Travellers journeyed for weeks for a chance to ask the oracle a question. The answers, given by a mysterious priestess called the Pythia, were believed to come straight from the god Apollo. At the height of Greek civilisation the oracle was revered, and its opinion sought in some of the most significant conflicts of the age. Its activities were documented by historians including Xenophon and Plutarch, and it was regularly depicted in Greek tragedy, most famously Sophocles's masterpiece Oedipus the King.With: Paul CartledgeA G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge UniversityEdith HallProfessor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of LondonNick LoweReader in Classical Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.Producer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle, the most important source of prophecies in the ancient world. In central Greece, on the flank of Mount Parnassus, lies the ruined city of Delphi. For over a thousand years, between approximately 800 BC and 400 AD, this was the most sacred place in the ancient world. Its chief attraction was the Delphic Oracle, which predicted the future and offered petitioners advice.Travellers journeyed for weeks for a chance to ask the oracle a question. The answers, given by a mysterious priestess called the Pythia, were believed to come straight from the god Apollo. At the height of Greek civilisation the oracle was revered, and its opinion sought in some of the most significant conflicts of the age. Its activities were documented by historians including Xenophon and Plutarch, and it was regularly depicted in Greek tragedy, most famously Sophocles's masterpiece Oedipus the King.With: Paul CartledgeA G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge UniversityEdith HallProfessor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of LondonNick LoweReader in Classical Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.Producer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle, the most important source of prophecies in the ancient world. In central Greece, on the flank of Mount Parnassus, lies the ruined city of Delphi. For over a thousand years, between approximately 800 BC and 400 AD, this was the most sacred place in the ancient world. Its chief attraction was the Delphic Oracle, which predicted the future and offered petitioners advice.Travellers journeyed for weeks for a chance to ask the oracle a question. The answers, given by a mysterious priestess called the Pythia, were believed to come straight from the god Apollo. At the height of Greek civilisation the oracle was revered, and its opinion sought in some of the most significant conflicts of the age. Its activities were documented by historians including Xenophon and Plutarch, and it was regularly depicted in Greek tragedy, most famously Sophocles's masterpiece Oedipus the King.With: Paul CartledgeA G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge UniversityEdith HallProfessor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of LondonNick LoweReader in Classical Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.Producer: Thomas Morris.

Caleb Linville, Curt Linville, Stephen Moldenhauer, & Stone Hubbard are featured on today's show as they share a trip report from the winter ascent of Mount Parnassus (13,579 ft).  There are some real gems hidden in this show about climbing in the winter, snow shoeing in avalanche terrain and lessons learned. Most of the show was recorded on location while ascending the peak.  We part from the standard format of the show for this special report and mix in some great tunes performed by Stone.  Hope you enjoy this change of pace! www.adventuresportspodcast.com