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place

Crisa

also: Κρίσα

A town beneath Parnassus where Apollo, at the water-nymph Telphusa's urging, builds his oracle-temple instead of at her own quieter spring; the site later called Pytho/Delphi.

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Mentioned in 2 works (4 mentions)

The Iliad poem · 1 mention
The Homeric Hymns poem · 3 mentions

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