CLST 2090 Chapter : 10 Apollo Story
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Romans: when they took over greek mythology, they tried to find equivalent gods to each of the greek gods, the romans were able to find an equivalent for every god except for one- apollo. Son of zeus and leto (not hera, so she was angry) Finally, she arrived at this obscure greek island called delos, and they let her have her children there: hera did everything she could take make it agonizing, she was in labor for nine days. Greek, meaning "being too proud" especially with respect to the gods. She was saying her 14(7 boys, 7 girls) human children were more important than letos 2 divine children. Leto complained to artemis and apollo, and they went and killed all 14 of niobe"s children. So the myth became if you had any unexplained death of a child, it was assumed that it was.
