CLAS-C - Classical Studies CLAS-C 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Etiology, Hygieia, Adyton
28 Feb 2017
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**apoll n ( and variants) is not attested in mycenaean linear b, but paieon (originally, god of healing-song) is. Plague ( lord of the mice / plague-bearert ) [lycian origin?] Young man w/laurel wreath [daphn , laurel (bay leaves in harir) ] (beardless) Silver bow and arrows [ lord of the mice / plague-bearer :p160] Raven (sun) [classical era (480-323 b. c. e. )] major cultic sites island of delos. Part 1 p 161-2 pseudo-hh to delian apollo. Leto (daughter of the titans coeus and phoebe) 3 months by dionysus (when apollo winters with hyperboreans) oracles: Outside temple, worshippers offer sacrifices to priests for apollo; then petitioners ask a question of apollo. Within the temple, in the adyton (place not to be entered) Pythia spoke inspired oracles from bronze tripods which were mediated by the priests in dactylic hexameter proverbs maxims, sayings. Sibyl of cumae [ sibyl from kybel , a phrygian goddess]
