General Links:

Morford and Lenardon on-line (Homeric Hymns and Olympian Gods)

Unit I: DELPHI and the worship of Apollo

Selected readings on Delphi from Pausanias:

start at 10.5.1 (in the book entitled "Phocis"). Points of interest along the way:

• story of Oedipus (10.5.3)

• founding of the oracle and Temple of Apollo (10.5.5)

• the nature of the contests at the Pythian Games (10.7.2)

• the beginning of a pages-long list of votives on site (10.9.1) in which are embedded passages on:

  • the oracular tradition (10.12.1...)

  • Heracles' fight with Apollo for the sacred tripod (10.13.1)

  • the omphalos (10.16.3)

  • Battle of Thermopylae (10.20.1) - or see Herodotus' version

• The Temple of Apollo (beginning at 10.24.4)

  • 7 Sages and their inscribed words of wisdom (10.24.1)

  • Pindar's chair (10.24.4)

  • the stone Cronos vomited up (10.24.6)

• Building with Paintings - pages-long descriptions (10.25.1)

• Corycian Cave (and sacred rites associated with Apollo and Dionysus...10.32.1)

• interesting oracles mentioned and explained:

  • in Pausanias: 10.18.2-3, Homer's oracle (10.24.2)

  • in Herodotus: 

other internet sources: 

a decent run-down of basics, including the procedure of accessing the oracle: 

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/a/apollo.html
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/d/delphi.html