LCT12: Apollo II

Question 1

What does Apollo do? Why?

Answer 1

overtakes a Cretan ship because he needs servants for his temple in Crisa

Question 2

What does Apollo go aboard the ship as?

Answer 2

a giant dolphin (Greek = delphis)

Question 3

What does Apollo order the crew to do?

Answer 3

become the priests at his temple

Question 4

Attributes of Apollo

Answer 4

• unlucky in love

- a fiercely competitive god

Question 5

Daphne

Answer 5

a hunter, avoids city life

Question 6

Who falls for Daphne? But what happens?

Answer 6

Leucippos –> but can’t get near her

Question 7

What does Leucippos do to get near Daphne? Why is Apollo not happy?

Answer 7

dresses up as a woman and joins her band of female hunters and Apollo is jealous because Leucippos gets to hang out with Daphne and he doesn’t

Question 8

What does Apollo do to Eros?

Answer 8

mocks Eros’ skill with a bow

Question 9

What does Eros do in retaliation?

Answer 9

Gold arrow for Apollo : fall in love/want love

Lead arrow for Daphne : repels love/no desire for it

Question 10

How is Leucippos disguise found out?

Answer 10

Daphne and the rest of her women decide to bathe in a spring, Leucippos refuses to undress and is attack, saved by “the gods”

Question 11

What does Daphne ask Zeus to do when she is about to be caught by Apollo?

Answer 11

to be “removed from humanity”

Question 12

What does Zeus turn Daphne into?

Answer 12

A laurel tree (why Apollo wears the laurel wreath)

Question 13

Who is Lassandra?

Answer 13

daughter of Priam, kind of Troy

Question 14

What does Lassandra do? What does Apollo want to do?

Answer 14

Lassandra falls asleep in Apollo’s temple and Apollo wants to make love to her (she refuses)

Question 15

What is Apollo’s curse?

Answer 15

Lassandra will always prophesies the truth, but no one will believe her

Question 16

Coronis is pregnant by who? Guarded by what?

Answer 16

Pregnant by Apollo and guarded by a white crow

Question 17

Who else does Coronis love?

Answer 17

Ischys

Question 18

What does the crow report to Apollo?

Answer 18

that Coronis and Ischys were making love

Question 19

What happens Coronis?

Answer 19

Killed by Apollo for infidelity

Question 20

A regretful Apollo, does what?

Answer 20

in mourning, changes the crow from white to black

Question 21

What does Apollo do with Coronis after killing him?

Answer 21

cuts his son Asclepius out and saves him

Question 22

Asclepius is the god of what?

Answer 22

medicine

Question 23

Asclepius is considered what? But what?

Answer 23

considered a mortal but worshiped as a god

Question 24

What does Asclepius staff have on it?

Answer 24

a snake - shed skin, rejuvenation, good health

Question 25

What does Athena invent? Why does he discard it?

Answer 25

Flute - discards it when mocked by other goddesses

Question 26

What does Marsyas do? What does the winner get to do?

Answer 26

finds Athena’s flute and masters it and then challenges Apollo to competition –> winner can do anything they want to the loser

Question 27

What does the Jury consist of?

Answer 27

The Muses

Question 28

How does Apollo win?

Answer 28

plays the lyre upside down, Marsyas can’t duplicate this feat with the flute

Question 29

What does Apollo do to Marsyas?

Answer 29

skins him alive