Apollo, the god of music and healing: Mighty Athena, goddess of war and wisdom. The Greeks believed the god was humanlike who influenced lives of all Greeks. Although the Greeks had a group recognized as deities. They didn’t have any organized religion or religious beliefs. They even have a word for religion. Apollo was also an oracular god (holding or claiming the authority of an oracle). Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated. Several towns and places claimed the honor his birth, as we see from various local traditions mentioned by late writers. (apollo, 2015)
The Ephesians said that Apollo and Artemis was in the grove of Ortygia near Ephesus. The inhabitants of Tegyra in Boeotia near of zoster in Attica claimed the same honor for themselves. In some these local traditions Apollo is …show more content…
The number seven was sacred to the god; on the seventh of every month sacrifices were offered to him (hebdomagetes, Heschyl. Sep.802; comp. Callim. Hymn. In del. 250, &c), and his festivals usually fell on the seventh of a month. Immediately after his birth, Apollo was fed with ambrosia and nectar by Themis, and no sooner had, he tasted the divine food, than he sprang up and demanded a lyre and a bow, and declared, that henceforth he would declare to men the will of Zeus. Delos exulted with joy, and covered herself with golden flowers. (apollo, 2015)
Even the Gods feared him, and only his father and his mother, Leto, could easily endure his presence. Distance, death, terror, and awe were summed up in his symbolic bow; a gentler side of his nature, however, was shown in his other attribute, the lyre, which proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus through music, poetry, and dance. In humbler circles he was also a god of crops and herds, primarily as a devine bulwark against wild animals and disease, as his epithet Alexikakos indicates. (apollo,
The Ephesians said that Apollo and Artemis was in the grove of Ortygia near Ephesus. The inhabitants of Tegyra in Boeotia near of zoster in Attica claimed the same honor for themselves. In some these local traditions Apollo is …show more content…
The number seven was sacred to the god; on the seventh of every month sacrifices were offered to him (hebdomagetes, Heschyl. Sep.802; comp. Callim. Hymn. In del. 250, &c), and his festivals usually fell on the seventh of a month. Immediately after his birth, Apollo was fed with ambrosia and nectar by Themis, and no sooner had, he tasted the divine food, than he sprang up and demanded a lyre and a bow, and declared, that henceforth he would declare to men the will of Zeus. Delos exulted with joy, and covered herself with golden flowers. (apollo, 2015)
Even the Gods feared him, and only his father and his mother, Leto, could easily endure his presence. Distance, death, terror, and awe were summed up in his symbolic bow; a gentler side of his nature, however, was shown in his other attribute, the lyre, which proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus through music, poetry, and dance. In humbler circles he was also a god of crops and herds, primarily as a devine bulwark against wild animals and disease, as his epithet Alexikakos indicates. (apollo,