Bakis

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Bakis (Bacis in a Latinised spelling) was a semi-legendary ancient Greek seer of the 6th or 7th century BC, a native of Boeotia. Bakis was said to have been possessed by nymphs, who gave him the power of prophecy. Apocryphal oracular pronouncements in dactylic hexameters circulated under his name during times of stress, such as the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.

According to Erwin Rohde, 'Bakis' was a title originally applied to any one of a class of ecstatic seers, but later came to be thought of as the proper name of an individual.

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