CLASSIC 45A Lecture 5: Classics 45A-5-1
6 Oct 2016
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Apollo (roman: apollo, phoebus: epithets: pythian, delphian, delphinian, healer, foreseeing, farseeing, Shooting from afar : animals: raven(not really), (sometimes) dolphin; plants: laure, larkspur, cypress b. i. Birth of apollo: homeric hymn to apollo (delian, pythian, leto wandering around(hera"s anger lands afraid to let leto stay) b. i. Settles in delos; promises apollo will build his shrine here: hera prevents eileithyia from going to leto cannot give birth, labors for 9 days c. i. Wise god: knows what god he will be connection to zeus. Delphi: omphalos=navel of world (zeus sends 2 eagles to go around the world; meets at delphi, pan-hellenic shrine, had enlightening sayings carved c. i. God of knowledge and self-knowledge: pythian game d. i. if you win, gets laure crown d. ii. Musical contests: oracle of delphi (the most famous oracle) e. i. Tripod near chasm where toxic gases comes up to possess the pythia? proven wrong? e. i. 3. How did she go into frenzy, ecstatic state? e. ii.
