Delphi: Self-Guided Audio tour on your Phone (no ticket)

“Delphi: the Google of the ancient world” tracks the footprints of ancient tourist guides and transforms the sanctuary of Apollo into a spectacular life experience. Millennia before Google appeared, this was the place where mortals could receive answers to their pressing questions.
This tour will take you past the information available on traditional guides or information panels. It begins at the Kastalia spring with the myths associated with the efforts of Apollo to establish his oracle (treacherous nymphs and bloodthirsty dragons be damned) and proceeds through the Roman Agora to explore the site as THE tourist attraction of the ancient world. The souvenirs and the statues are gone but the stories about Apollo as supreme fisherman or the struggle of the Athenians and the Spartans to outdo each other in bluster and bombast haunts the remains of the votive offerings. The Sacred Way will take you past the Treasury of the Siphnians (the original Lannisters) and the Rock of the sibyl who raved relentlessly for centuries. As you approach the Temple of Apollo you can marvel at the hundreds of bills of slave sales on the Polygonal Wall (one of them allows a mother to either raise her child or kill it). The Theater offers an incomparable view and an opportunity to discuss the merits of diarrhoea as an offensive weapon in war.
To take this self-guided tour you will need the app on your iOS or Android device.
HIGHLIGHTS
• See the treasures along the Sacred Way (be thankful that you are not following an ancient guide who spoke incessantly).
• Explore the Halo, the open space where a band of youths carrying torches set a hut on fire in commemoration of Apollo’s slaying of the dragon.
• Visit the Temple of Apollo (where you stand like the Greeks and blame yourself for not bringing the goat required by the god to offer you advice).
• Enjoy a view of the distant sea from the Theater, and commiserate with the hapless Cretan sailors abducted by Apollo to serve as his priests.
• Hear the sound of silence among the pine trees at the Stadium and feel pity for Croesus, who gave Apollo seven tons of gold and lost his empire.