At the heart of ancient Greece lay a small city perched on a mountainside – Delphi.1 At the heart of Delphi was the temple of Apollo, where delegations from cities far and wide, even beyond Greece, would come for answers and advice. And at the heart of the temple was a woman, the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo and mouthpiece of the god (Figure 17). For a thousand years successive Pythias occupied this position as ‘the voice at the center of the world’, until the oracles eventually ran dry in the fourth century and then pagan cults were outlawed by the Roman emperor Theodosius in the ad 390s.2 Around 480 bc, the Pythia was a woman called Aristonice. Her words have reverberated through western history.