CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cumaean Sibyl, Apollo 1, Pythian Games
4 Apr 2016
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Apollo: nature, atributes: bow and lyre, concerns, truth: oracular god par excellence (but cf. Hermes (mercury: attributes: traveler"s cap (petasus), herald"s wand (caduceus), winged boots (talaria) Character: essence: mobility and mental agility (a trickster god, thebes needed a god and so hermes was, he helped them steal things. 3: summed as the creator and crosser of boundaries intermediary between worlds, god of luck, concerns, divine messenger: as such he help heroes; cf. Especially zeus"s messengers: god of thieves: thieves, tricksters, merchants: he is a trickster god, par excellence; he gave. Pandora the character of a thief: god of boundaries: Messenger of zeus (between heaven and earth) goes between zeus and heroes, giving them messages to help. Hera was protecing the cow with an argus, zeus wanted hermes to get rid of argus (100 eyes) Giving him the name argeiphontes (phontes means murderer); means killer of argus.
