CLASS 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Omphalos, Pythian Games, Laurel Wreath
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Apollo & zeus have serious competition they vie for being the greatest olympian. Apollo cannot have this title because zeus already does. Son of zeus & leto, zeus impregnates leto who gives birth to apollo & artemis. Hera makes leto give birth elsewhere in the world the twins are born in delos, located in the middle of the west and east, symbolic for apollo"s worship extending to both sides of the world. Apollo is also tutored by the centaur chiron the god of truth/prophecy, absolute truth, the socrates kind of truth. God of lyric poetry light, healing/medicine, archery, plague, poetry, reason, music/dance, prophecy, muses. Bow & arrow, far darter laurel crown daphne lyre fell in love with daphne, but did not win her over. She transformed into a laurel tree by her river-god father. After, apollo worshiped the laurel tree because he never loses his love for.
