Term
|
Definition
| God of music, prophecy, healing, refinements of an advanced culture (medical art); visionary experiences; perpetual youth among gods, raven/crow is the bird of this god; late-comer to Greek pantheon, has many cults in Anatolia |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Titan goddess; mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus on Delos (Hera made it to where she could not give birth on the surface of the earth by withholding assistance of Eileithyia), daughter of Creus and Phoebe; Tityus attempted to rape her |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| princess who mocked Leto as she had 14 children and Leto only had 2 children; the twins shot all of this woman's fourteen children; was turned into a weeping stone; warning to those who might try to obstruct worship of a new god and his mother; she denied divinity of Leto and her two children, and so was punished |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Apollo’s son; great healer; snakes associated with healing as they shed their skin; temple at Epidous (center of medical learning in Greek world) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| nymph, Oceanid; didn’t like men much, Apollo criticized cupid for playing with bows and arrows, so Cupid shot an arrow of love to Apollo and drew arrow of hate to shoot this nymph; she prayed to mother earth to be rescued, she took root in the earth, turning into a Laurel tree; took place on a river bank (father could have been a river god) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| from Sparta, Apollo and him did gymnastics together (boys exercised without clothes); Apollo threw discus so high that this boy was killed – turned into flower with petals stained with color of blood, alpha and iota (Greek cry of lamentation) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a giant snake, originally guarded the Oracle at Delphi, Oracle originally belonged to Themis of Ge/Gaia. A symbol of the old order. Apollo killed this snake and got the Oracle at Delphi, appropriating it to this new, Asiatic god. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| nymph, successful love affair of Apollo; very strong athletic huntress; similar to Apollo’s sister Artemis, strong enough she could wrestle lions, have a son; Apollo transports her to shores of North Africa where she becomes the city named after her |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Birthplace of Apollo's son, Asclepius |
|
|
