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Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape

A Delphic priesthood is the dated cult office. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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A Delphic priesthood is the dated cult office. Plutarch’s documented role is: He held a Delphic priesthood. The oracle's fee-and-prestige economy is the sanctuary's, shared. UNESCO Delphi is not this office. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Hadrianic-era Greek religion under Rome. Named others on the file: Delphic amphictyony; unnamed sanctuary staff. The public setting is the file around 0095-01-01. The instrument stays Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape. The setting of Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape is the public file around 0095-01-01. Driver institutional-corruption is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Cult office, not a unique embezzlement file. Welfare reading worsening. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. UNESCO Delphi is not this office. Mixed effects of Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Plutarch

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He held a Delphic priesthood. The oracle's fee-and-prestige economy is the sanctuary's, shared.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactPlutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 95 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PlutarchInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — PlutarchEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Lives of Plutarch independently record a Delphic priesthood. Official: Britannica — Plutarch, Delphi (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plutarch (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch (https://iep.utm.edu/plutarch/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Plutarch, Delphi (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plutarch (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Plutarch (https://iep.utm.edu/plutarch/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Medium confidence on exact year. Established: a sourced public record of Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape under 0095-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape. Naming Plutarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0095-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPlutarch
  2. contributed toFactPlutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Plutarch serves as a priest at Delphi as later dated, a cult office inside a tourist-and-oracle landscape. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/plu-delphi-priest

https://factrail.ai/facts/plu-delphi-priest

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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