Bakis (also Bacis; Greek: Βάκις) is a general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C.[1] Philetas of Ephesus,[2] Aelian[3] and John Tzetzes[4] distinguish between three: a Boeotian, an Arcadian and an Athenian.
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- ^ Suda s. v. Βάκις
- ^ Aelian, Various Histories, 12. 35
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1278