Pilgrims consulted the oracle to seek counsel in day to day life.
We have already seen the story of Periander , the Corynth tyrant , who turns to the Nekromanteion of Ephyra to question his wife's spirit where she has put away the treasure he has entrusted to her when still alive.
A famous pilgrimage to an oracle in ancient times was the one made by the Romans, after Canne's defeat in 216 b.C., when Quinto Fabio Pittore was sent to Delphi to question the Apollo's oracle "with which prayers and sacrifices Romans could get into gods' good graces and when such terrible misfortunes would come to an end".
| An example drawn by every day life is contained in a bustrophedic (see etymology) bronze tablet (photo on the right), now hosted, with others of similar contents, in Ioannina Archaeological Museum. The tablet tells the story of a certain Hermone who, towards the end of the 6-th century b.C., addresses the oracle of the living in Dodona to ask which gods he could pray so that his wife Kretea gave birth to new obliging children beyond those they already have. |  |