CLSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cincinnati, Kythira, Elos
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Apollo: twin brother of arimis (sister: children of zeus not hera, mother is leto. Eventually referred to sun god: always depicted as young (adult, held by many ugly ancients as heir of zeus. Atributes: mantel, loral leaf, lyre, kythera (sound box around it, bow. Hera steps in when apollo"s mother is busy: makes sure hera"s daughter on wild goose chase during that ime. Iris (messenger god) sent to ind hera"s daughter. Leto looking for some place to give birth and nobody wants her to give birth there because hera got word out. Lapiths having wedding and invite neighbors and they were centaurs. Centaurs never had wine before, become drunk and rowdy and geing out of hand with women. Apollo happens to be in neighborhood and helps get everything back into order. Delpe under mt. carnass: ater giant lood the couple went there, sacred to gia (center of gia) If you wanted to know the future, you would go the oracle.
