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Hermes
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that Hermes gave Pandora the character of a thief and the mind of a bitch,
stories about him as an infant, son ove Zeus and Maia. born in a cave. He made the 1st instrument from turtle guts: a lyre Stole cattel from Apollo and made them walk backwards: thunder cloud traded lyre for 2 sacrificed cows |
god of:
good luck businessmen and thieves the practical joke |
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Hermaphroditus
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son of Hermes and Ahprodite
a nymph asked him to fuck @ 16yo. he said no. he swims she comes back wraps around him and together becomes Hermaphrodite- both male and female |
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Dionysus
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raised in India and came back as adult to Greece:
God of wine En vino veritas- in wine truth Freedom from fear and anxiety=gift to humans(the little madness) if refused you go insane (the big madness) the liberator of Greeks, fress us from pain, god of liquids, women followers= Maenad men followers= Satyr- half human/half goat Mother from Thebes |
(Bacchus)
cont. of Zeus, hera & Semele story: Gods always appear in disguise, smell good, are tall and blonde, always a pregnancy: after Semele, human, was consumed by lightning, Zeus saved him, cut his own leg and put the fets in his leg and birthed him =ing a God |
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Penthus
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King of Thebes and Dionysus' cousin
Royal fam didnt believe that Dionysus was related so he cursed them with Great Madness |
his Grandfather tells him to accept Dionysus' offer to briing women back, let Pentheus see family female rituals, and not go against a god.
Also told to accept by Tiresias |
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Tiresias
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Kills female of a mating pair of snakes and is turned into female. 7 years later kills a male snake, mating, and is turned back into a man
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Zeus and Hera argued over sex – Zeus asked Tiresias, who had experienced both, who enjoyed sex more. Zeus said women did, Hera said men did. Tiresias said “ear story” (when you stick your finger in to scratch it, which feels better the finger or the ear), he said that men enjoyed sex 1/10th as much as women did. This angered Hera, who blinded him. Zeus felt sorry for him and gave him the gift of prophecy.
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Midas
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Dionysus gave Midas any wish he wanted – what he wanted was for anything he touched to turn to gold. He went back to Dionysus to get rid of the gift/curse, washed in a stream as instructed, and it was gone. He was offered this gift because he returned a lost follower of Dionysus.
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Pan
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the god of the Shepard – part man/part goat. Pan was attracted to a nymph, but she didn’t want him. She ran and prayed to the gods for help. She was turned into reeds. Pan cut the reeds and made the Pan Pipe musical instrument that is still used today.
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Echo ( a nymph)
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Zeus’s wife Hera suspected that Echo and Zeus were in cahoots, Echo would visit Hera and talk to her so that Zeus could go play
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So Hera cursed Echo so that she would not be able to initiate a conversation, and could only repeat the last few words someone else had said. So since Echo could no longer start a conversation to distract Hera, Echo quit visiting.
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Narcissus (a male human)
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cursed Echo is out by her pool one day when Narcissus comes by. Nymphs, always wanting sex, so Echo approaches Narcissus…but she couldn’t initiate a conversation, she just stood there and looked at him. He finally said “go away”, and she repeated “go away”. He said “leave now”, she repeated “leave now”. Narcissus said “I’ll never let you possess me”, and she said “POSSESS ME!!” He said no, and left.
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Narcissus bent down to take a drink and saw his reflection in the water – and fell in love with his reflection. He tried to reach for it, but he disturbed the water and it went away. He wouldn’t leave the reflection for food and wouldn’t drink to disturb it, so eventually he died right there. Narcissism – obsessive self-absorption, with no room for anyone or anything else.
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Leto
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had twins, Apollo and Artemis
with zeus. out of fear had them on obscure island of Delos. only person who wouldnt honor her was a human preincess, Niobe, who had 14 kids of her own, and resented her loss of attention |
Niobe- The first of the great sins – Hubris, which is being too proud, especially with respect to the gods; treading on the gods territory, or playing god.
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Apollo
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killed Niobe's children with his sister Artemis... Apollo killer the 7 boys and Artemis the 7 girls.
Apollo looked for a chance to prove his divine power. It happened at Delphi. He took two eagles, set them free from opposite sites of the earth, and they met at Delphi. So it was there that he proved his divine power by killing a giant serpent. So Apollo made Delphi the main location for his worship. |
Apollo is the god of prophecy and of art. Prophecy is what’s in the god’s minds, while art encompassed artwork, painting, sculpture, music and athletics. Art and prophecy are linked-
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Oracle
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the shrine of Apollo – an oracle can be either the prophetic message itself or the place/shrine. At the oracle, there was a priestess with the title Pythia through whom Apollo spoke to humans. You had to have a significant question for the Pythia, there was a period of fasting, and you had to pay a fee, buy a cake, sacrifice a sheep or goat. That sacrifice was not because the gods had any use for sheep or goats, more that it was disposing of a part of your wealth and giving up something valuable.
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So you ask Pythia your question. Pythia would rock in her chair and utter an answer of incomprehensible jibberish. Priests there would translate and write it down to give to you. It was much like fortune tellers, very ambiguous answers.
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Croesus was king of Lydia (now Turkey), which bordered on Persi
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Croesus invented money as we know it – stamping coinage of pure, weighed gold with his seal.
Croesus worried about the Persians trying to overtake Lydia, so he considered a pre-emptive first strike. So he sent his people to Pythia and the oracle. The answer was “if you attack, you’ll destroy a mighty empire.” He attacked, Persia whooped him and took Croesus prisoner. The Persian king was so angry that Croesus had attacked him that he was going to burn Croesus alive at the top of a huge pyre. They had started the fire when Croesus yelled, “Apollo, why did you deceive me?” |
Croesus pointed out that they were actually looting what was not his stuff. So the king made Croesus an advisor and granted Croesus one wish. Croesus wanted to go to Delphi to ask why Apollo had deceived him. So he traveled there and the priests told him that he had not been deceived, that he had misunderstood the oracle and should have asked for clarification. You did destroy a mighty land, so Apollo did not deceive you, Croesus. He saw their point.
The Oracle really was used to make military decisions until the Roman empire shut it down, fearing it had too much influence. |
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Sibyl (apollo)
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beautiful human woman Apollo was interested in, but she was not attracted to him. He tried to bribe her to sleep with him. She asked for the gift of prophecy – he gave it. Will you sleep with me now? Still not attracted, so she scooped up a handful of sand…I want to live one year for every grain of sand in my hand. Apollo granted it. Will you sleep with me now? No, Sibyl said, I thought I could, but I can’t go through with it, and she backed out
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Well, the gods can’t take back gifts once they were given. So instead, Apollo pointed out that she forgot to ask for eternal youth and beauty. D’oh! So she got old, ugly, big and butch, and then Sibyl started getting smaller until she wasted away and was just a voice. They kept the voice in a bottle, and people would visit to ask her for prophecy and advice. One man who got his prophecy asked her if there was anything she wanted – she said she wanted to die, but she couldn’t – she knew just how many years she had left.
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Cassandra (apollo)
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another beautiful woman who wouldn’t sleep with Apollo. The gifts he gave Cassandra included prophecy, but she also rejected him after receiving the gift. In anger, Apollo spat in her mouth, and after that she could predict the future accurately, but no one would believe her!
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Marpessa (apollo)
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Apollo actually got this one in bed, but there was a human male who was also interested in her. Both Apollo and the man wanted to marry Marpessa, so she had to make her decision between a god and a human. She thought, it’s a bad idea to marry a god, it would be violent if he rejected her, and besides, he’s eternal and she would grow old and lose her looks, and he’d begin cheating on her. So she married the human, someone with whom she could grow old together.
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Daphne (apollo)
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recall that he’s the god of the arts, including athletics and archery – the bow is Apollo’s weapon of choice. (dont piss off cupid)
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So there’s a hill. Daphne’s walking up one way, Apollo’s walking up the other, and Cupid is on top. He shoots Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow (desire) and shoots Daphne with a lead-tipped arrow (repelled). So when they come around the hill, face to face, with Apollo naked, he falls in love and she runs in terror, repelled by him. He was getting close to catching her, so she prayed to the gods to transfer her into something to get away. She became a tree. So Apollo is in love with a tree. It’s a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
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Hyacinthus (apollo)
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Apollo also liked young boys, before puberty. Greeks tended to be bisexual, liking boys before they got body hair. So Hyacinthus was about 16, and Apollo loved him, physically and otherwise. They were practicing athletic events, standing at opposite ends of a field and throwing the discus back and forth. Apollo threw it, it hit a stone when it landed, bounced up and hit Hyacinthus in the head, a fatal wound. As a memorial, Apollo caused a blood-red flower to grow out of the ground at that spot, the hyacinth.
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Coronis (apollo)
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– a woman who had a sexual relationship with Apollo. He found out that she had been unfaithful, so he shot an arrow through her chest. In dying, she admitted that she had been unfaithful, but also that she was carrying his child. Apollo was the god of medicine, and he saved the baby.
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Apollo
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killed Niobe's children with his sister Artemis... Apollo killer the 7 boys and Artemis the 7 girls.
Apollo looked for a chance to prove his divine power. It happened at Delphi. He took two eagles, set them free from opposite sites of the earth, and they met at Delphi. So it was there that he proved his divine power by killing a giant serpent. So Apollo made Delphi the main location for his worship. |
Apollo is the god of prophecy and of art. Prophecy is what’s in the god’s minds, while art encompassed artwork, painting, sculpture, music and athletics. Art and prophecy are linked-
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Asclepius
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Child of Apollo and Coronis. Apollo gave Asclepius to Chiron to raise. Chiron taught Asclepius the art of medicine, and Asclepius became the best Greek doctor, so good that he could treat any disease and even had brought a patient back to life. The gods didn’t like this – it was an example of hubris. So they complained to Zeus, who killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Thanks a lot.
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Chiron was a centaur, ½ man and ½ horse
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Oracle
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the shrine of Apollo – an oracle can be either the prophetic message itself or the place/shrine. At the oracle, there was a priestess with the title Pythia through whom Apollo spoke to humans. You had to have a significant question for the Pythia, there was a period of fasting, and you had to pay a fee, buy a cake, sacrifice a sheep or goat. That sacrifice was not because the gods had any use for sheep or goats, more that it was disposing of a part of your wealth and giving up something valuable.
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So you ask Pythia your question. Pythia would rock in her chair and utter an answer of incomprehensible jibberish. Priests there would translate and write it down to give to you. It was much like fortune tellers, very ambiguous answers.
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Croesus was king of Lydia (now Turkey), which bordered on Persi
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Croesus invented money as we know it – stamping coinage of pure, weighed gold with his seal.
Croesus worried about the Persians trying to overtake Lydia, so he considered a pre-emptive first strike. So he sent his people to Pythia and the oracle. The answer was “if you attack, you’ll destroy a mighty empire.” He attacked, Persia whooped him and took Croesus prisoner. The Persian king was so angry that Croesus had attacked him that he was going to burn Croesus alive at the top of a huge pyre. They had started the fire when Croesus yelled, “Apollo, why did you deceive me?” |
Croesus pointed out that they were actually looting what was not his stuff. So the king made Croesus an advisor and granted Croesus one wish. Croesus wanted to go to Delphi to ask why Apollo had deceived him. So he traveled there and the priests told him that he had not been deceived, that he had misunderstood the oracle and should have asked for clarification. You did destroy a mighty land, so Apollo did not deceive you, Croesus. He saw their point.
The Oracle really was used to make military decisions until the Roman empire shut it down, fearing it had too much influence. |
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Sibyl (apollo)
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beautiful human woman Apollo was interested in, but she was not attracted to him. He tried to bribe her to sleep with him. She asked for the gift of prophecy – he gave it. Will you sleep with me now? Still not attracted, so she scooped up a handful of sand…I want to live one year for every grain of sand in my hand. Apollo granted it. Will you sleep with me now? No, Sibyl said, I thought I could, but I can’t go through with it, and she backed out
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Well, the gods can’t take back gifts once they were given. So instead, Apollo pointed out that she forgot to ask for eternal youth and beauty. D’oh! So she got old, ugly, big and butch, and then Sibyl started getting smaller until she wasted away and was just a voice. They kept the voice in a bottle, and people would visit to ask her for prophecy and advice. One man who got his prophecy asked her if there was anything she wanted – she said she wanted to die, but she couldn’t – she knew just how many years she had left.
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Cassandra (apollo)
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another beautiful woman who wouldn’t sleep with Apollo. The gifts he gave Cassandra included prophecy, but she also rejected him after receiving the gift. In anger, Apollo spat in her mouth, and after that she could predict the future accurately, but no one would believe her!
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Marpessa (apollo)
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Apollo actually got this one in bed, but there was a human male who was also interested in her. Both Apollo and the man wanted to marry Marpessa, so she had to make her decision between a god and a human. She thought, it’s a bad idea to marry a god, it would be violent if he rejected her, and besides, he’s eternal and she would grow old and lose her looks, and he’d begin cheating on her. So she married the human, someone with whom she could grow old together.
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Daphne (apollo)
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recall that he’s the god of the arts, including athletics and archery – the bow is Apollo’s weapon of choice. (dont piss off cupid)
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So there’s a hill. Daphne’s walking up one way, Apollo’s walking up the other, and Cupid is on top. He shoots Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow (desire) and shoots Daphne with a lead-tipped arrow (repelled). So when they come around the hill, face to face, with Apollo naked, he falls in love and she runs in terror, repelled by him. He was getting close to catching her, so she prayed to the gods to transfer her into something to get away. She became a tree. So Apollo is in love with a tree. It’s a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
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Hyacinthus (apollo)
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Apollo also liked young boys, before puberty. Greeks tended to be bisexual, liking boys before they got body hair. So Hyacinthus was about 16, and Apollo loved him, physically and otherwise. They were practicing athletic events, standing at opposite ends of a field and throwing the discus back and forth. Apollo threw it, it hit a stone when it landed, bounced up and hit Hyacinthus in the head, a fatal wound. As a memorial, Apollo caused a blood-red flower to grow out of the ground at that spot, the hyacinth.
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Apollo
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killed Niobe's children with his sister Artemis... Apollo killer the 7 boys and Artemis the 7 girls.
Apollo looked for a chance to prove his divine power. It happened at Delphi. He took two eagles, set them free from opposite sites of the earth, and they met at Delphi. So it was there that he proved his divine power by killing a giant serpent. So Apollo made Delphi the main location for his worship. |
Apollo is the god of prophecy and of art. Prophecy is what’s in the god’s minds, while art encompassed artwork, painting, sculpture, music and athletics. Art and prophecy are linked-
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Coronis (apollo)
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– a woman who had a sexual relationship with Apollo. He found out that she had been unfaithful, so he shot an arrow through her chest. In dying, she admitted that she had been unfaithful, but also that she was carrying his child. Apollo was the god of medicine, and he saved the baby.
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Oracle
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the shrine of Apollo – an oracle can be either the prophetic message itself or the place/shrine. At the oracle, there was a priestess with the title Pythia through whom Apollo spoke to humans. You had to have a significant question for the Pythia, there was a period of fasting, and you had to pay a fee, buy a cake, sacrifice a sheep or goat. That sacrifice was not because the gods had any use for sheep or goats, more that it was disposing of a part of your wealth and giving up something valuable.
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So you ask Pythia your question. Pythia would rock in her chair and utter an answer of incomprehensible jibberish. Priests there would translate and write it down to give to you. It was much like fortune tellers, very ambiguous answers.
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Asclepius
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Child of Apollo and Coronis. Apollo gave Asclepius to Chiron to raise. Chiron taught Asclepius the art of medicine, and Asclepius became the best Greek doctor, so good that he could treat any disease and even had brought a patient back to life. The gods didn’t like this – it was an example of hubris. So they complained to Zeus, who killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Thanks a lot.
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Chiron was a centaur, ½ man and ½ horse
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Croesus was king of Lydia (now Turkey), which bordered on Persi
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Croesus invented money as we know it – stamping coinage of pure, weighed gold with his seal.
Croesus worried about the Persians trying to overtake Lydia, so he considered a pre-emptive first strike. So he sent his people to Pythia and the oracle. The answer was “if you attack, you’ll destroy a mighty empire.” He attacked, Persia whooped him and took Croesus prisoner. The Persian king was so angry that Croesus had attacked him that he was going to burn Croesus alive at the top of a huge pyre. They had started the fire when Croesus yelled, “Apollo, why did you deceive me?” |
Croesus pointed out that they were actually looting what was not his stuff. So the king made Croesus an advisor and granted Croesus one wish. Croesus wanted to go to Delphi to ask why Apollo had deceived him. So he traveled there and the priests told him that he had not been deceived, that he had misunderstood the oracle and should have asked for clarification. You did destroy a mighty land, so Apollo did not deceive you, Croesus. He saw their point.
The Oracle really was used to make military decisions until the Roman empire shut it down, fearing it had too much influence. |
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Sibyl (apollo)
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beautiful human woman Apollo was interested in, but she was not attracted to him. He tried to bribe her to sleep with him. She asked for the gift of prophecy – he gave it. Will you sleep with me now? Still not attracted, so she scooped up a handful of sand…I want to live one year for every grain of sand in my hand. Apollo granted it. Will you sleep with me now? No, Sibyl said, I thought I could, but I can’t go through with it, and she backed out
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Well, the gods can’t take back gifts once they were given. So instead, Apollo pointed out that she forgot to ask for eternal youth and beauty. D’oh! So she got old, ugly, big and butch, and then Sibyl started getting smaller until she wasted away and was just a voice. They kept the voice in a bottle, and people would visit to ask her for prophecy and advice. One man who got his prophecy asked her if there was anything she wanted – she said she wanted to die, but she couldn’t – she knew just how many years she had left.
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Cassandra (apollo)
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another beautiful woman who wouldn’t sleep with Apollo. The gifts he gave Cassandra included prophecy, but she also rejected him after receiving the gift. In anger, Apollo spat in her mouth, and after that she could predict the future accurately, but no one would believe her!
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Marpessa (apollo)
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Apollo actually got this one in bed, but there was a human male who was also interested in her. Both Apollo and the man wanted to marry Marpessa, so she had to make her decision between a god and a human. She thought, it’s a bad idea to marry a god, it would be violent if he rejected her, and besides, he’s eternal and she would grow old and lose her looks, and he’d begin cheating on her. So she married the human, someone with whom she could grow old together.
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Daphne (apollo)
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recall that he’s the god of the arts, including athletics and archery – the bow is Apollo’s weapon of choice. (dont piss off cupid)
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So there’s a hill. Daphne’s walking up one way, Apollo’s walking up the other, and Cupid is on top. He shoots Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow (desire) and shoots Daphne with a lead-tipped arrow (repelled). So when they come around the hill, face to face, with Apollo naked, he falls in love and she runs in terror, repelled by him. He was getting close to catching her, so she prayed to the gods to transfer her into something to get away. She became a tree. So Apollo is in love with a tree. It’s a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
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Hyacinthus (apollo)
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Apollo also liked young boys, before puberty. Greeks tended to be bisexual, liking boys before they got body hair. So Hyacinthus was about 16, and Apollo loved him, physically and otherwise. They were practicing athletic events, standing at opposite ends of a field and throwing the discus back and forth. Apollo threw it, it hit a stone when it landed, bounced up and hit Hyacinthus in the head, a fatal wound. As a memorial, Apollo caused a blood-red flower to grow out of the ground at that spot, the hyacinth.
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Coronis (apollo)
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– a woman who had a sexual relationship with Apollo. He found out that she had been unfaithful, so he shot an arrow through her chest. In dying, she admitted that she had been unfaithful, but also that she was carrying his child. Apollo was the god of medicine, and he saved the baby.
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Asclepius
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Child of Apollo and Coronis. Apollo gave Asclepius to Chiron to raise. Chiron taught Asclepius the art of medicine, and Asclepius became the best Greek doctor, so good that he could treat any disease and even had brought a patient back to life. The gods didn’t like this – it was an example of hubris. So they complained to Zeus, who killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Thanks a lot.
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Chiron was a centaur, ½ man and ½ horse
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