CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cumaean Sibyl, Croesus, Divine Twins

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Embodied the greek ideal of rationality and beauty. Because of hera"s opposition of the birth of the divine twins, no land would accept leto; so leto found an island and promised that it would get recognition if it would host her. Apparently this is the centre of the earth; there exists this stone in delphi which they dubbed as the bellybutton of the world which marked the centre of the. Earth; this stone was said to be the stone that kronos swallowed. Story said that there was already a shrine at delphi which was the shrine of. Themis where a huge serpent was located; apollo slew this dragon. Pythian apollo is the name of apollo as he is manifested in delphi. Also called apollo delphinius ; story: when apollo slew the serpent at delphi and started to establish his temple there; he didn"t have any priests!