CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homeric Hymns, Laurel Wreath, Ortygia
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Later association with being sun-god (although he had no connection with the s. Also represented as archer-god (he is not god of hunters) Father = zeus, mother = leto (persecuted by hera) Leto gave birth on the floating islands of delos and ortygia. Omphalos: zeus made delphi the center of the earth. Apollo agreed but she refused to sleep with him. Her punishment: she would always tell the truth but nobody w. Same as cassandra, refused to sleep with him. Her punishment: lasting youth to accompany a long life (kept. She rejected him but he pursued her in the mountains. To escape, she prayed to her father who turned her into a tre. A discus hit him in the head and killed him and apollo caused. He was also the "shaman" or "medicine man" the sun) dy would believe her ept growing old till she shriveled up) a tree sed flowers to grow out of his blood.
