Note 191 — Chapter III · THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH
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It was on the advice of Socrates that Xenophon consulted the oracle at Delphi, before he set forth for the campaign in Asia, which forms the story of his Anabasis. Tablets discovered in Epirus in 1877 by C. Carapanos (see Dodone et ses Ruines, Paris, 1878) give examples of questions addressed to the oracle at Delphi. Agis asks if some mattresses and pillows are likely to be recovered. Another pilgrim enquires whether the god recommends sheep-farming as an investment.