Pausanias' Description of Greece

Phemonoe

Role: priestess · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 5

Life events

  • Phemonoe became Apollo’s first priestess and first reciter of hexameter oracles.(Book 10 · Chapter 5 · 📍 Delphi)
    • With: Apollo
    • “But the greatest and most widespread fame attaches to Phemonoe, who was the first priestess of Apollo, and the first who recited the oracles in hexameters.”

Book 10 · Chapter 5

  • with Apollo (Phemonoe was Apollo's first priestess.) “But the greatest and most widespread fame attaches to Phemonoe, who was the first priestess of Apollo, and the first who recited the oracles in hexameters.”
  • with Apollo (Phemonoe was Apollo's priestess.) “Phemonoe, who was the first priestess of Apollo”

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