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Monday October 17, 2011
Apollo’s Domain
- God of music
- Archer God
o Not for hunting – for disease.
o Arrows = Plague.
- God of prophecy.
- Mos Greek of all the Gods.
- Associate with reason, intellect.
- Not associated with the sun until Hellenistic period.
- Epithet Phoebus (shining) from light of intellect.
- Represented virtues important to the Greeks.
o Physical Ideal.
o Moral Ideal.
- Only God besides Zeus to have widespread worship.
- Often via oracles.
- Birth
o Zeus impregnates Leto (Minor Goddess)
o Hera’s reaction?
 She got really angry.
o Island of Delos, to try and give birth to her children.
o Hera doesn’t allow the other Goddess of childbirth to go help Leto. However, one
of the Goddesses of birth goes and helps her.
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