CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hamaxitus, Lightning, Cyparissus
3 Oct 2013
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Apollo is a young god, but important nevertheless. He is the god of prophecy, law, sun, plague and medicine, archer god and the younger twin of. Newcomer to the pantheon, not from greece. He is from the island of delos (parts are still there) Hera hears about zeus and leto and doesn"t allow leto a place to give birth in greece. Rhea, themis & amphitrite help leto give birth against hera"s will and gives birth to both. Another version of apollo"s myth is that apollo comes from mt. Olympus and searches for a place, fights a pytho on mt. Parnassus which hera created for him to fight. Version 3: apollo was traveling and created a site that must be worshipped by sailors passing by. Apollo comes to their ship as a dolphin. These were cretan sailors that brought him to greece. A site where there are a large numbe rof buildings, greeks called is omphalos (navel)
