Excuse my verbosity, it runs to almost 800 words. In Aeschylus’ Eumenides (The transformed Furies) soon after the murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes he, plagued by the Furies, seeks aid at the temple Apollo in Delphi. The Pythian high priestess (Pythia is the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who... Sign in to see full entry.