ENGL 2444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homeric Hymns, Chryses, Tityos
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Apollo: overview: difficult and complex, bow and lyre, epithets. Laurel: phoebus, far-shooter, mousagetes, delphian and loxias. Apollo in the iliad book 1: priest of apollo (chryses) visits agamemnon, asks for his daughter, agamemnon refuses, chryses prays for apollo, apollo uses his bow to send a plague on the greeks, agamemnon returns chryses. The birth of apollo: homeric hymn to apollo, zeus and leto, hera"s wrath, ortygia and delos, leto"s pro(cid:373)ise, eileithyia"s a(cid:271)se(cid:374)(cid:272)e; apollo"s (cid:271)irth a(cid:374)d first uttera(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Homeric hymn to apollo (cid:862)the so(cid:374) of glorious leto (cid:373)ade his way harpi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) his hollow harp to ro(cid:272)ky pytho, (cid:272)lad i(cid:374) his divine raiment that is fragment, and beneath the golden plectrum pleasantly sounds his lyre. Thence from earth to olympus, fleet as thought, he goes to the house of zeus, into assembly of the other gods, a(cid:374)d soo(cid:374) the i(cid:373)(cid:373)ortals tur(cid:374) their thoughts to lyre a(cid:374)d so(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d all the.
