{"id":1154,"date":"2003-08-08T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/08\/oracle-busted-for-intoxicating-drugs\/"},"modified":"2003-08-08T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T13:37:48","slug":"oracle-busted-for-intoxicating-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/08\/oracle-busted-for-intoxicating-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Busted for Intoxicating Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DELPHIC ORACLE is shown inhaling vapors in this photographic interpretation,
\n because new evidence supports ancient assertions that intoxicating
\n gases were a source of her inspiration. In reality, the gases would
\n have been invisible.<\/p>\n

Strabo (64 B.C.-A.D. 25) wrote: "They say
\n that the seat of the oracle is a cavern hollowed deep down in the earth,
\n with a rather narrow mouth,
\n from which rises a pneuma [gas, vapor, breath; hence our words "pneumatic" and "pneumonia"]
\n that produces divine possession. A tripod is set above this cleft, mounting
\n which, the Pythia inhales the vapor and prophesies." . <\/p>\n

from Scientific
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DELPHIC ORACLE is shown inhaling vapors in this photographic interpretation, because new evidence supports ancient assertions that intoxicating gases were a source of her inspiration. In reality, the gases would have been invisible. Strabo (64 B.C.-A.D. 25) wrote: "They say … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}