The Oracle at Delphi was the Most Important Woman of the Ancient World. Who was she?
She proclaimed Socrates the wisest man in the world, predicted the rise of Alexander the Great, foretold the death of Nero and, as a test of her powers, told Croesus what he had for dinner on a specific day. She was part of nearly every single major decision of the classical world from 800 BC until she predicted the end of the Roman empire in 393…