CLA204H1 Lecture : apollo
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Becomes one with the ground and transforms into a bay laurel tree. Apollo uses powers of forever youth on tree. Discuss throwing contest and hit him in the face and kills him. Alternate version: zephyr the wind god caused the discus to hit hyacintus. Apollo refused to allow lover go to the underworld and turned him into a flower with his spilled blood. Homeric hymn 25: to the muses and apollo. Apollo wins and can do anything he wants with marsyas. Pan - woodland god of goat and human. Daughters had power to produce oil, grain and wine. Resisted to go supply army during trojan war. Take nymph back to cyrene and makes her a queen.
