CLAS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Half-Breed, Amphiaraus, Omphalos

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS100
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Dionysus represented the less rational and more fun/crazy side. Truth: he is an oracular god that showed the truth, zeus and amphiaraus (hero who died and at his dealth spot) had oracles too. Music/poetry: often associated with the muses. Healing: together with his son asclepious who is a god of healing too, romans adopted apollo from the greeks. He was ideal for beauty and represented rationality. He was in charge of more sophisticated music unlike dionysus with his wild expression: character. This was the only place that would let leton birth artemis and apollo: delphi, this is an etion explanation of a natural phenomenon where in the real world people actual had festivals at this location, foundation. There was an oracle at delphi and through this, apollo was said to speak through this place. After apollo was born he was carried to hyborians (north) but then he was summoned back to greece to establish his oracle.