CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ocyrhoe, Cupid, Pythian Games
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Very emotional when it comes to women and reason, overly aggressive male; inability to express himself adequately to object of desire. For example, he couldn"t predict what would happen with daphne because love it out of his power. Shoots the sea dragon/python which was guarding his sanctuary at delphi. Pursuit of daphne is connected to the python. Cupid shoots apollo with an arrow (due to apollo basically telling cupid that he doesn"t deserve daphne), causing apollo to be in love with daphne. After killing the python apollo made the pythian games in homage to the serpent he killed (the games were held to compensate for someone"s death) Daphne will forever be out of his reach as she turns into the laurel, which is the crown that is always on apollo"s head + his lyre + bow (sign of morning) God of oracles/communication but has problems communicating himself when it comes to love and desire.
