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19 March 2007updated 27 Sep 2015 5:44am

A blackboard epiphany in Ancient Delphi

How a schoolteacher's epiphany at Delphi led him to worship Apollo

By James Head

A little over 18 years I first came to Ancient Delphi, and I have to admit that I only came on this first occasion for a “day trip” as any tourist does.

However, on that first visit I had this strange kind of religious or spiritual awakening; a sudden realization that there were other ways of looking at things from the way I had been used to in England.

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