APOLLO
Dec 14, 2015
APOLLO
Zeus + Leto___________|___________
Artemis Apollo
Apollo < “Destroyer” (?) “Assembly” (?)
Apollo Phoebus (= bright? = fox?)
Apollo Lykios (=A. Wolf? = A. from Lycia?)
Hyperborean Apollo?
Healing & Purification
Music
Enforcement of Limits
Prophecy
Apollo Smintheus (Rat)
Apollo Paian (Healer)
miasma: disease, contagion, physical pollution
Healing & Purification
Music
Enforcement of Limits
Prophecy
Apollo Musagetês (Muse-Leader)
The singers and lyre players of this earthare descended from the Muses and far-shooting Apollo,but kings are from the line of Zeus. Blessed is the manwhom the Muses love; sweet song flows from his mouth.A man may have some fresh grief over which to mourn,and sorrow may have left him no more tears, but if a singer,a servant of the Muses, sings the glories of ancient menand hymns the blessed gods who dwell on Olympos,the heavy-hearted man soon shakes off his dark mood, and forgetfulnesssoothes his grief, for this gift of the gods diverts his mind.
—Hesiod, Theogony
Apollo & Muse
Healing & Purification
Music
Enforcement of Limits
Prophecy
Apollo Hekabolos (Who Shoots from Afar)
metron: measure, boundary, limit, balance, order
Children of Niobe
Apollo vs. Centaurs
Apollo vs. Marsyas
Healing & Purification
Music
Enforcement of Limits
Prophecy
Delphic Insritpions
(1) Nothing in excess (mêden agan). (2) Observe the limit. (3) Master passion. (4) Fear authority. (5) Hate hybris. (6) Bow to the divine. (7) Keep woman under rule. (8) Know [become aware of] yourself (gnôthi seauton).
Apollo and Order
Physical Beauty, Athleticism sculptural canon, chariot-racing
Ratio and Harmony music, poetry, mathematics
Medicine and Purification Apollo Paian, cleanser of miasma
Enforcement punisher of hybris
Prophecy oracle at Delphi
Self-Restraint mêden agan (“nothing in excess”)
Self-Knowledge gnôthi seauton (“know your place”)
Zeus + Leto___________|___________
Artemis Apollo
birth on rocky island of DelosApollo leaves Delos without being breast-fed
Apollo kills female dragon Pytho at DelphiApollo establishes prophetic shrine
KOUROI
APOLLO Ephebe
Apollo + Daphne failed attempt to catch
Apollo + Cassandra
woman reneges on promise of sex
Apollo + Sibyl woman reneges on promise of sex
Apollo + Coronis betrayal of Apollo
Apollo + Hyacinthus
lover accidentally killed by Apollo
Cassandra
Apollo + Daphne failed attempt to catch
Apollo + Cassandra
woman reneges on promise of sex
Apollo + Sibyl woman reneges on promise of sex
Apollo + Coronis betrayal of Apollo
Apollo + Hyacinthus
lover accidentally killed by Apollo