Week 7

Question 1

apollo delian vs apollo delphian (pythian)

Answer 1

delian = delos
delphian = delphi

Question 2

homeric hymn to apollo

Answer 2

longest hymn, originally 2 separate, one to delian and one to delphian

Question 3

leto’s punishment

Answer 3

leto is a titan, punished by hera that no land that sees the light of day could receive her children

Question 4

where is apollo and artemis born

Answer 4

apollo = delos
artemis = ortygia

Question 5

apollo epithet

Answer 5

far shooting god, phoebus

Question 6

leto’s labour

Answer 6

after leto can’t give birth for 9 days, all the goddesses gather to help but can’t without eliothia, hera’s daughter. They send iris to hera and she relents

Question 7

deliades

Answer 7

women worshippers on delos

Question 8

pythian apollo

Answer 8

god of delphi

Question 9

first place to make oracle

Answer 9

telphusa, rejected

Question 10

where he makes oracle

Answer 10

crisa under mt parnassus

Question 11

omphalos

Answer 11

signifies delphi as earth’s center

Question 12

panhellenic sanctuary

Answer 12

people come from all over, worshipped throughout greece

Question 13

pythian games

Answer 13

mix of intellect and physical, every 4 years, written about by poet pindar

Question 14

pythia

Answer 14

the specific oracle at delphi, sat on tripod in the adytum inner sanctum of the temple

Question 15

siybl

Answer 15

general term for a prophetess

Question 16

cumaean siybl

Answer 16

most famous seers, their prophecies were in the sibylline books consulted by romans

Question 17

first sibyl myth

Answer 17

(ovid) she rejects apollo, he tells her she can live as many grains of sand she can pick up, because of her rejection he does not grant her eternal youth, so she ages till she becomes a ciciada

Question 18

apollo and daphne

Answer 18

apollo insults cupid who then shoots apollo to make him fall in love with daphne (devoted to artemis) who flees from him and is turned into a tree to escape him, which is why apollo wears a laurel crown

Question 19

apollo and coronis

Answer 19

coronis cheats on apollo and is caught by a raven, apollo shoots her and regrets his actions, she is pregnant and he gives the baby asclepius to be raised by chiron

Question 20

ascelpius

Answer 20

greatest doctor to ever live, transformed into a god, temple at epidaurus

Question 21

asclepiads

Answer 21

students of Asclepius, most famous Hippocrates

Question 22

apollo and marsayas

Answer 22

marsayas a saytr finds athena’s abandoned flute and masters it, challenges apollo to a duel, whoever wins can do whatever they want, apollo wins and flays marsayas alive

Question 23

main asclepius healing method

Answer 23

incubation

Question 24

oracle attendants

Answer 24

apollo turns into a dolphin to make cretan sailors be temple attendants

Question 25

apollo and cassandra

Answer 25

doomed to prohesey in vain

Question 26

apollo and cyrene

Answer 26

rare successful affair

Question 27

apollo and marpessa

Answer 27

chooses mortal idas instead