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Nekromanteion of Acheron. Where people were waiting for the deads souls
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An afternoon walk in the ancient ruins of Eleusis.
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4th of July 1990. A party in Ios, the Island where the party Never Ended
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Next flight to Colombia.
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Polaris
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Urban Landscape of Athens: Pireos Street
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I Wish I Was There
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Beaches of the world
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The revival of the Nemean Games
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Diving in luxury
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Strolling in Plaka
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The marbles of Athens First Cemetery
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Female Faces
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Heavy snowfall in central Athens on Monday night, January 9, 2017
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City Versions
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Strolling in Paris. From Marché de Clignancourt to Place de la Republique
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Cuba
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Refugee camp in Northern France
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Summer forms
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The deserted Ellinikon Airport of Athens
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Istanbul by night, in the year 2002
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The first major rally in Athens for authorship of the name Macedonia, 1992
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Transvestite beauty contest at Athens in 1990
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In Paris was spread a strange light.
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Refugee crisis: One to one?
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Berlin in the night
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A trip to Prespes lakes
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Small trip to Delphi
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Eidomeni
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Stuck in Eidomeni's camp
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The scene of tragedy
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Dreams in transit
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Refugee crisis on Lesvos island
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Exit
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Summer creatures
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Feast at Saint Symeon Monastery
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NBA, Sepolia Style
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THE CIRCUS
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Easter at Meteora
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Formalism in Athens
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Following democracy
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Celebrating Saint Simeon: the feast of the heroes
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Parlez-vous Français?
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Sunday at Acropolis hill
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City of Kozani in winter
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60 Portraits in 2014
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Syrians refugees: Demanding a future
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A visit to Libya in 1990
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Kobane in Syria: war, refugees, loss
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Kosovo,15 years after
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September 3rd Street
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Miraculous August
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Architecture and Athens Olympic Games of 2004
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Summertime in Agistri island
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Athens
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Santorini Island
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Immigrants at Thessaloniki
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Weekend in Cycladic Kea
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London: A crossroad of cultures
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the Passover
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Morocco
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Jerusalem: Holy Sepulchre, the crossroads of Christianity
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Women's Toy
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Spring is coming
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Dress code:Oriental
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In Love
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Africa
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Babougera, for a happy new year
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Live in Athens 2013
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Christmas in any way
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Manhattan, New York
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Greek poet Yannis Ritsos's funeral in Monemvasia, Greece, on November 14, 1990
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MUSHROOMS MY LITTLE FAVORITES..
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The discreet charm of History
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AMERICANA
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23rd World Congress of Philosophy
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Paradise Island
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Under the stars
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Riding my Harley
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Occupy ERT
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Gay Pride Parade
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Postcards from Corfu Island
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Free Falling
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Polaroids from Japan
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Perfect harmony: treasures of Greek antiquity
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Esphigmenou Monastery in Mount Athos
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Celebrating Easter in Athens
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Holy Saturday in an Ethiopian Church
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Beliebers for ever!
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Where are their roots
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Artists in the fringe
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Mount Sinai, walking to God
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Windflowers or life is too short
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Kick boxing tournament for a good cause
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Ravaged roads
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Greek elite in a masquerade ball in 2000
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Farmers blockades in central Greece
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From Russia with love
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Lanterns festival at Tinos island
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Don't look away
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Farmers blockades
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Flour smudging in the greek Carnival
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Shanghai
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Villa Amalias
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Mount Athos, journey into the infinity of time of Orthodoxy
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The night of 6 December 2008, a boy was killed, a city was burned, crisis had started
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Tsipouro, the warm spirit of joy
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The Greek effect
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Athens Classic Marathon
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A fisherman's life
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Athens Electric Railway: urban life in motion
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Brazil
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Wildfires, Peloponnese 2007
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Olympic Venues
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Evacuate Athens
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The Navel of the Earth, Delphi
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Lebanon 2006 - 2007: the war, post war
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Greek elections 2012
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Children are not cars: occupations of schools by students in 1990
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Kings of the Ring
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Aspropyrgos, neighbourhood of the repatriated Pontian Greeks
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Cretan Mainland
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Without papers
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Japanese
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Greek House: Megara
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The Presidential Mansion gardens
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Aganaktismenoi at Syntagma Square
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Cuban Habanos
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Motherland
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Tirana 2005: Under Construction
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Kosovo Ruins
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Roma: people at the city edge
photographs: Spyros Staveris
Delphi was the most important oracle of ancient times. In this place, built at the foothills of the sacred mountain Parnassus, the ancient Greeks worshipped the god Apollo and honored his name. Before the god reached this land and killed the dragon Python, people worshipped chthonic Gaia.
Delphi was considered the center of the world, the "navel" ("omphalus") of the earth. According to the legend Python fell in a hole in the earth, when he was killed by Apollo and fumes were gushing from the decomposition of his body. The high priestess of the oracle, Pythia -an old woman and a virgin, after a prophecy had been ordered and after she had eaten laurel leaves, sat on a tripod over this rock cleft, in the inner sanctum of the temple, got intoxicated from the fumes and the burning psychoactive herbs, and fell into a trance, allowing Apollo to conquer her spirit. She made inarticulate cries and uttered incoherent words which the priests translated into oracles in verse, usually of ambiguous significance.