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?
Are there famous cases of the Oracle at Delphi being plain wrong?
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I don’t think so, the prophecies were so vauge, they could fit to just about anything.
If a prophecy was thought to be wrong, it was blamed on the interpretation of the prophecy.
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.