CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Praxiteles, Pinax, Kylix
Document Summary
Apollo: prophecy and music: brief consideration of apollo in love, similarities to artemis. Dionysus a god of fluid force : the problem of myth & religion, pan (a god in his own right but not as important) & what he tells us about the gods. Demeter: the grand homeric hymn and its ideas. God of prophecy at delphi, also of music. Holding an instrument too large for him. Apollo and artemis usually connected in art, simiarity. Second century ad roman copy of a hellenistic bronze original. Sanctuary of apollo & city of ancient delos. In antiquity was vibrant commercial centre, major site of worship of apollo. Birthplace of apollo, then importance diminishes . Pylos: both places = maor palaces cetres in minoan and myceneaen cultures. Appears, intercepts the ship, leeps on the deck in form of huge dolphin. Summons a wind to guide the ship to land much farther north at delphi.
