Birth and Fight with PythonApollo slaying Python.When Leto was pregnant, Hera was furious with Zeus' unfaithfulness and forbade the Titan from giving birth on either the islands or mainlands. Fortunately, the f
Apollo had long nursed a grudge against Achilles for slaying his son Tenes before the Trojan War began. In most traditions, Apollo guided an arrow shot by the Trojan prince Paris to kill Achilles.[41] Unhappy in Love: Four Romances of Apollo Apollo, like most of the Greek gods, had many...
Additionally, he was known as a great musician who made beautiful music, as the male insect known as the cicada makes music with his hind legs. Apollo’s Oracle at Delphi Apollo is famous for slaying the python deity who lived in Delphi with his bow and arrow. After Apollo killed the ...
Of the Greek festivals in honour of Apollo, the most curious was the octennial Delphic Stepterion, in which a boy reenacted the slaying of the Python and was temporarily banished to the Vale of Tempe.Although Apollo had many love affairs, they were mostly unfortunate: Daphne, in...
The Slaying of Python Fed exclusively withnectarandambrosia, in merely four days Apollo grew strong and hungry for revenge. So, he went straight away to Parnassus wherePythonlived, and wounded the monster with his arrows. Python managed to escape and shelter itself atGaea’s ancient sanctuary in...
Apollo slaying the Python A new era had dawned and after Apollo’s slaying of the Python, barbarism and savage custom were discarded. In place of the old religion came a quest for harmony, a balancing of opposites. Apollo was worshiped as a god of light, harmony, order and of prophecy....
Koroibos is in the market-place of the Megarians. The story of Psamathe and of Koroibos himself is carved on it in elegiac verses and further, upon the top of the grave is represented Koroibos slaying the Poine. These are the oldest stone images I am aware of having seen among the ...
[DELPHINIUS and] DELPHI′NIA (Delphinia), a surname of Artemis at Athens. (Pollux, x. 119.) The masculine form Delphinius is used as a surname of Apollo, and is derived either from his slaying the dragon Delphine or Delphyne (usually called Python) who guarded the oracle at Pytho, or...
Of the Greek festivals in honour of Apollo, the most curious was the octennialDelphic Stepterion, in which a boy reenacted the slaying of the Python and was temporarily banished to theVale of Tempe. Apollo with lyreRoman marble statue of Apollo with lyre. ...
Delia, ancient quadrennial festival of the Ionians, held on Delos (hence the name) in honour of the Greek god Apollo. The local title was Apollonia, which seems always to have been used for the corresponding yearly festival. It later declined along with the political importance of Ionia but...