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The word oracle in Greek can mean several related things. It means a God who predicts the future like Apollo. It also means a priest who hears a message, the message itself, and the place where the priest hears the message. Most often however it means the priest or the message. The Greeks believed that you could communicate with the gods at certain places, at certain times through certain people, and that the gods would give you advice and maybe tell you what was going to happen in the future. Oracles were the spiritual link between the gods and mortal men. Consulted not just by the poor and strictly religious, but by everyone from kings to beggars. Such oracles were numerous Herodotus lists five in mainland Greece. Also one in Asia Minor who was supposedly consulted by Lydian king Croesus (cro-seus) in the sixth century. The business of a "general...

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