6: The Homeric Hymn to Apollo Flashcards
What does Deluge mean
flood
what was the destruction myth of Ovid’s Lycaon
Jupiter (Zeus) comes down from Olympus to test Lycaon, Lycaon fails and tries to murder his guest. Jupiter causes a flood to punish Lycaon.
what is Lycaon representative of?
the worst of human beings.
Who are Deucalion and Pyrrha?*
Deucalion is the son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha is the daughter of Epimetheus.
Epimetheus is Prometheus’ brother.
Who were Hellen’s (son of Deucalion and Pyrrha) sons, why were they significant
Dorus, Aeolus, and Xuthus, they each gave their name to a ancient greek dialect.
what were Deucalion and pyrrha responsible for? how did they do it
They were the only two that survived the flood and are responsible for rebuilding the human race (from throwing pyrrha’s mother- pandora’s) bones over their shoulders.
Explain Apollo’s timeshare with his brother Dionysus
He spends the winter with Hyperboreans and dionysus is in charge of paranussus when he’s gone.
Who was the priestess named pythia
Mouthpiece of the Apollo, speaks on behalf of him, gives advice to humans. People say she could be inspired, crazy or high.
In different versions ‘the previous owners’ myth, who takes the place of the oracle priestess pythia instead
Gaea, Themis, Phoebe
What two famous inscriptions are at Apollo’s temple at Delphi
“know thyself” and “nothing too much” (or “nothing in excess)”
What happens when a god loves a mortal woman
It rarely turns out well for her
How is apollo like his father with girls
He has many girlfriends
Who were Apollo’s girlfriends
Cassandra, Daphne, Coronis and the cumean Sibyl
Explain the myth of Appolo with Cassandra of Troy
Apollo gives her the gift of phophecy, possibly as inspiration for sex. She accepts the gift but possibly says no to sex. Her phrophecies were never believed and when troy falls she is raped and killed and given as Agamemnon’s prize.
Explain the myth of Daphne and Apollo
Apollo is hit with an arrow that inspires love and Daphne is hit with an arrow that does the opposite and she wants nothing to do with Apollo. She prays to be transformed to escape Apollo and is turned into a laurel tree which ends up being Apollo’s favourite tree.
Explain the myth of Coronis and Apollo
Apollo has an affair with Coronis and their child is Ascelpius who was the first doctor.
Explain the myth of Apollo and Hyacinth
Apollo’s “boyfriend” Hyacinth, Apollo accidently hits him on the head with a discus too hard and kills him.
what are the two parts of the homeric hymn to apollo
delian and pythian.
who put two different songs and put them together to make the homeric hymn to apollo
the rhapsode cynaithos
what does delos not want leto to do on his island
Delos doesnt want leto to give birth on his island
who was apollo’s mother
Leto
Is eilethyia there when Leto goes into labour
no
What’s about what apollo does when he’s born demonstrates his divinity?
He leaps out, doesn’t nurse because he’s not human, themis gives him nectar and sweet ambroisa, they swaddle him and tie him with a golden band but it came off because you cannot bind a god. The gods also make noise when he is born.
What does leto do when she is giving birth to apollo
she wraps her arms around a palm tree
after apollo is born he announces his offices, what are they
Music, archery and prophecy
what signifies when the hymn to apollo switch to the pythian part
when Apollo goes to delphi (pytho)
Pythian bc pytho = ancient delphi
What does tephusa tell apollo
telphusa tells apollo to build a temple on paranassos becuase it’s too noisy with horses on delos
But what happens at paranassos when apollo goes
There is a dragon (nurse of typhon who zeus defeated), apollo kills it with his arrow.
There’s a parallel, the dragons are related so apollo is like his dad.
What does apollo do after slaying the dragon.
he punishes telphousa for telling him to go to paranossos when the dragon was there.
According to the homeric hymn to apollo who is the mother of typhon dragon, and Hephaestus? why does she give birth to them?
Hera, she mad bc Zeus had athena by himself. But Hephaestus isn’t perfect like Athena.
But in hesiod earth is the mother of typhon.
what is a source of miasma in the homeric hymn
Pytheios (from the serpent’s rotting corpse)
where does apollo get his priests to serve him
from Crete
How does apollo appear to the priests at crete? Where does he bring them? why?
As a dolphin, and he brings the priests to delphi to serve him.
what are the 3 cult titles in the homeric hymn to apollo and what are each from
Telphousios (via telphousa), Pytheios (from the serpents rotting corpse), and Delphinos (from the dolphin).
which of apollo’s offices does the delian part of the hymn refer to
music
which of apollo’s offices does the pithian part of the hymn refer to
archery
what does “pyth” in the cult title pythios refer to
The dragon’s rotting corpse
