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