Classical Mythology

ARTEMIS 219 my unhappy mother, O my bitter birth, may no one dear to me ever be born a bastard!" At this point in the play, Hipp ...

220 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS this virtuous act. Hippolytus, however, is virtuous and chaste, but his behavior has led to ...

ARTEMIS 221 your enemies. The god of the sea, your father and kindly disposed towards you, fulfilled your curse; he had to, sinc ...

222 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS HIPPOLYTUS: Ah, what a breath of divine fragrance! Even amidst my mis- fortunes, I feel your ...

ARTEMIS 223 with the last gasps of the dying; and I see that you are now near that terrible state. HIPPOLYTUS: Go as I bid you f ...

224 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS There have been many subsequent dramatic versions of the legend. The treat- ment of the Roma ...

ARTEMIS 225 A rock on Mt. Sipylus in Asia Minor was identified in antiquity as the figure of Niobe. Actaeon was the son of Aris ...

CHAPTER 11 APOLLO THE BIRTH OF APOLLO As has been told in the previous chapter, Zeus mated with Leto and she con- ceived the twi ...

APOLLO 227 peaks of Pelion, Thracian Samos, the shady hills of Ida, and Scyros, Phocaea, the sheer mountain of Autocane, well-bu ...

228 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Dione, Rhea, righteous Themis, and sea-moaning Amphitrite—and others too, except for white-a ...

APOLLO 229 ...

230 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The conclusion of this first part of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo tells about the great festiv ...

APOLLO^231 a she-dragon by the fair-flowing stream nearby. The name of the site was hence- forth called Pytho (and Apollo, the P ...

232 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS is an awe-inspiring spot to this day. For anyone walking along the Sacred Way up to the grea ...

APOLLO 233 neath or inside the bowl, and it could be used for many obvious practical pur- poses. The tripod at Delphi was both a ...

234 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS ciety. According to Plato's Apology, Socrates' friend Chaerephon went to Delphi to ask who w ...

APOLLO 235 entrust them to the leaves. All this may be an oblique reference to some char- acteristic of the Sibylline books (col ...

236 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS chose Idas because he was a mortal, for she was afraid that the undying and eternally handso ...

APOLLO 237 all-consuming fire and fueled his love with fruitless hope. He sees her hair ly- ing unadorned upon her neck and says ...

238 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Apollo and Daphne, attributed to Antonio del Pollaiuolo (1433-1498). Oil on panel; 11 5 /s X ...