{"id":219,"date":"2007-12-23T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-12-23T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T13:09:19","slug":"castalian-spring-delphi-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/greece\/delphi-greece\/castalian-spring-delphi-greece","title":{"rendered":"Castalian Spring and Gymnasium &#8211; Delphi, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was believed that before entering the Sacred area, everyone visiting Delphi for religious purposes, atheletes included, was required to purify themselves in the clear and icy waters of the Castalian Spring.\u00a0 The process mainly involved the washing of ones hair.\u00a0 The Oracle would also wash herself here before making her pronouncements.\u00a0\u00a0 Lord Byron apparently believed that the spring waters would enhance\u00a0the poetic spirit and he took a dip in the spring.\u00a0 When he returned to London in 1812, he said &#8220;<em>If I am a poet it is the air of Greece which has made me one<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Water from the Spring flowed down to the Gymnasium, providing cold baths for the atheletes.\u00a0 The Romans added hot baths for the atheletes training for the Pythian games in the 2nd century.\u00a0 The Gymnasium included an outdoor running track as well as a covered one in case of bad weather.\u00a0 Apart from being a training venue, the gymnasium was also used by poets and philosophers who taught here.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was believed that before entering the Sacred area, everyone visiting Delphi for religious purposes, atheletes included, was required to purify themselves in the clear and icy waters of the Castalian Spring.\u00a0 The process mainly involved the washing of ones hair.\u00a0 The Oracle would also wash herself here before making her pronouncements.\u00a0\u00a0 Lord Byron apparently [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi-greece"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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