CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Epidaurus, Asclepius
30 Jan 2015
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God of music, divination and prophecy, purification, healing, and often identified with the sun. The son of zeus and leto his symbols are the lyre, the laurel, and his bow and arrows. His birth: when his mother leto became pregnant, hera forbade anyone under the sun to provide her with shelter. The island of delos took in the pregnant goddess; & she gave birth to the twins: artemis acted as midwife to her mother during apollo"s birth. Dephi: zeus"s eagles fly and meet at the center of the world. The center of the world the omphalus [navel] The punishment of marsyas: marsyas was a phyrigian satyr who challenged apollo to a contest in which the god won, as punishment for his arrogance, marsyas was tied to a tree and flayed alive. Hyakinthos: a spartan prince, loved by apollo. The west wind became jealous and killed him: the grieving god transformed the dying youth into a larkspur flower.
