CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cupid, Pan Flute, Cumaean Sibyl
8 Apr 2016
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Favourite bird crow (they are very intelligent) Detail of apollon drawing his bow from a paining depicing the slaughter of the niobides. The god is crowned with a laurel wreath and has a quiver slung from his side: concerns, truth: oracular god par excellence (but cf. Zeus and amphiaraus: music and poetry: oten associated with the muses, healing: together with his son asclepius. God of healing romans adopted apollo as a god of healing (didn"t use an alternate name: character: ideal of beauty and raionality. Embody the greek ideal of raionality, beauty, and order. Shrines: delos: the litle island that could (foundaion story) Shrines of apollo was important for religion and mythology. Delos leto promised the land to give birth to apollo on this iny island: delphi, foundaion stories: pythian apollo, apollo delphinius. Ater he was born, he was carried to the far north (hyperboreans) Looking for a place to establish his oracle.
