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Cirrha

Name: Seneca Entire
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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

also: Cirrhaean

The port of Delphi, used by metonymy for the Delphic oracle and its prophetic mouth.

Reading notes

Hercules on Oeta §1501 the Cirrhaean cave
Cirrha, the port of Delphi; with Parnassus it stands for the Delphic oracle that confirmed his doom.
Oedipus §247 Cirrhaean seer
The Delphic oracle, named from Cirrha, the port of Delphi.

Oedipus trag · 1 mention

Hercules on Oeta trag · 2 mentions