Are there famous cases of the Oracle at Delphi being plain wrong?

Posted on February 7, 2010 by admin

All I ever hear about is the seemingly correct prophecies: “trust in the wooden walls,” “Croesus will destroy a great empire,” etc.

Yet are there any well-known cases of this oracle having been dead wrong?

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3 Responses to Are there famous cases of the Oracle at Delphi being plain wrong?

  1. Gewehr07 says:
    February 7, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    I don’t think so, the prophecies were so vauge, they could fit to just about anything.

  2. loryntoo says:
    February 7, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    If a prophecy was thought to be wrong, it was blamed on the interpretation of the prophecy.

  3. james p says:
    February 7, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    By the way, there has been a recent discovery of a volcanic vent exactly where the Oracle would sit. Scientists theorize that the carbon dioxide contributed to the “hallucinations” the Oracle had.
    There was an article in Scientific American magazine a couple of years ago about it.

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