Delphi

Delphi Greece. Delphi is a beautiful area in the mountains and certainly easy to see why peoples from the Myceans of the 1100’s BC all the way to the later Roman period found this to be a special place - unfortunately worshipping all manor pagan Greek and Roman deities.

In the pictures you can see the main temple to Apollo. Delphi was at the height of its glory in the 6th to 4th century BC and continued to be active until the late 300s AD when Rome outlawed ancient pagan religions.

An important archeological find at Delphi for Christians is the Gallio inscription. The inscription is from emperor Claudius to Gallio the proconsul of Achaia (Ancient Greece) and it dates Gallio’s term as proconsol to about summer of AD 50 to AD 51 or 52 (usually a 1 year, sometimes 2 year post). In Acts 18, Paul is brought before the proconsol Gallio while in Corinth. This helps date Paul’s second missionary journey. There is also a possible connection to Delphi in Acts 16:16.