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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Alexander Wilbourne Weddell 



THE RUINS OP THE TEMPLE OP APOLLO AT DELPHI 



Unlike most pagan structures in Greece, the Temple of Apollo at Delphi would seem never 

 to have been converted into a Christian church. In the vestibule of the ancient temple were 

 carved the famous sayings of the seven sages, "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much.'' In one 

 corner of the building was the chasm of the Oracle, a cleft in the earth from which a poisonous 

 gas arose (see text, page 630). 



