CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clytemnestra, Trojan War, Odysseus
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Apollo has always been a beardless youth (eternal youth (between youth and adulthood) at the pinnacle of young adulthood) Youth wore their hair long in ancient greece, (cutting the hair is a ritual) some not cut their hair when being adult (spartans) A. "s adjective phoebus: phoebus apollo, the one who is radiantly pure. Maintain a ritual purity to be accept as adults. Keeps showing that he is ready for adulthood. The lykeios: interpreted by ancient sources to the agent of lukia. Wolf: lykos in many rituals that one period the acceptance people of the ritual were to leave the community and to survive on their own compared with wolf. A play on the word to destroy apollo can be interp(cid:396)eted as the (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271) (cid:862)to dest(cid:396)o(cid:455)(cid:863) the destructive god. Cassandra (brought back to the army by agamemnon): cursed to always tell the truth when no one believes her.
