We caught the 10:30am bus which cost us each 1.90 Euro (about $3.00 for a one way ticket) to Delphi. It is about a half hour ride into the town of Delphi and then a bit of a hike uphill to the Museum and the Sanctuary of Apollo since it sits on a slope of Mt. Parnassus (a ski area in the Winter months).
We started in the museum. Here are a couple of the highlights:
These are statues of twins from Argos, Cleobis and Biton. The story goes that their mother had to get to the Festival of Hera very soon but the oxen needed to carry her wagon were still in the fields. The sons harnessed themselves to the wagon and carried their mother quite a distance to the Temple. She was so thankful that she prayed to the Goddess to give her boys whatever was best…they went to sleep that night after the feast and never woke up (Be careful what you ask for). The people of Argos honored them by making these statues at Delphi
This is a statue of Antinous who was a close companion to Emperor Hadrian. This boy drowned in the Nile and Hadrian then told the people to worship him as a demi-God. His statue was very well preserved. There are holes in his hair where a bronze wreath of laurel leaves would have been attached to his head. Created between 117-138AD
The star of the museum is the 5th century BC Charioteer:
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