pre-teens

ancient records tell of mystical, sweet-smelling vapors rising from the earth, putting the pythia under apollo's spell.

据古书记载，神秘、醇香的蒸汽从地面升起，皮提亚就中了阿波罗的咒语。

Who was this man who dared, singlehanded, to challenge the entire world of Hellenism--embodied in Homer, Pindar, and Aeschylus, in Phidias, Pericles, Pythia, and Dionysus--which commands our highest reverence?

是谁敢于独持己见来否定希腊的天才呢，象荷马、品达、埃斯库罗斯、斐狄亚斯、伯理克斯、乃至阿波罗与狄奥尼索斯等等天才，岂不是使我们肃然起敬，视为文化的最深渊壑和最高峰岭吗？

During the oracular sessions, the Pythia spoke in an altered voice and tended to chant her responses, indulging in wordplay and puns.

皮媞亚会以一种不同于平常的声音传达神谕，并倾向以吟咏的方式回应，说出的尽是暧昧的文字游戏与双关语。