CLAS104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Viljandi, Croesus, Cumaean Sibyl
16 Apr 2016
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Beauty & culture of all gods: concerns, truth= oracles(where people went to ask questions about existing laws), mysterious, music and poetry: muses, destructive still, healing: (son= with. Asclepius) realm of disease and healing: delos: birthplace. Foundation story= leto and the little island that could: delphi, foundation stories: ~ he kills the great python guarding the shrine and took it. Her tripod- divine prophetic power, it has many practical purposes: ambiguity: messages were true, but had to figure out. Croesus--> gets a message from apollo that if he crosses the river his empire would be destroyed, ends up destroying it himself. Chaerephon goes to oracles to find who the wisest man in athens, and it is only socrates who knows that he doesn"t know anything) Cymaaean sibyl (oracle: cassandra: daughter of king prium - promises to marry.
