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That Bitch at Delphi Is About to Ruin Your Life, For a Fee
Send us Fan MailHow the ancient world’s most sacred oracle said “fuck you, pay me” and became the original—and most unhelpful—advice columnist. Picture it: Delphi, 800-and-something BC. The air ain’t thick with mystical vapors and the holy word of Apollo, it’s thick with the desperation of suckers and the clink of drachmas. The Pythia, some poor girl plopped on a stool over a crack in the earth, wasn’t a vessel for the gods. She was the Mediterranean’s first paid agony aunt, and her bosses, the priests, were the filthiest capitalists this side of Carthage. Forget divine possession; this was…
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