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Encyclopedia > Phemonoe

In Greek mythology, Phemonoe was a daughter of Apollo. She was the first Pythia and the inventor of the hexameter, a kind of poetry.


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But others say that Gaia and Poseidon had the oracle in common, and that it was Themis who gave the oracle to Apollo as a gift, and that Poseidon was compensated receiving Calaureia, that lies off Troezen, in exchange for the oracle.
Phemonoe, they say, was the first prophetess of Apollo at Delphi, but the Delphian poetess Boeo says that the Hyperboreans Pagasus 1, Olen and Agyieus established the oracle of Apollo at Delphi and that Olen was Apollo's first prophet.
The most ancient temple was made of laurel, the branches of which were brought from the laurel in Tempe (a Thessalian valley through which the river Peneus flows from the foot of Mount Pindus) where Apollo was once purified.
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