Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pindar, however, seems to call Orpheus the son of Apollo in his Pythian Odes, [49] and a scholium on this passage adds that the mythographer Asclepiades of Tragilus considered Orpheus to be the son of Apollo and Calliope. [50] According to Tzetzes, he was from Bisaltia. [51] His birthplace and place of residence was Pimpleia [52] [53] close to ...
Orphism is named after the legendary poet-hero Orpheus, who was said to have originated the Mysteries of Dionysus. [7] However, Orpheus was more closely associated with Apollo than to Dionysus in the earliest sources and iconography. According to some versions of his mythos, he was the son of Apollo, and during his last days, he shunned the ...
Egyptian tapestry roundel with Orpheus and Apollo, 5th–6th century CE. In Greek mythology, the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice (Greek: Ὀρφεύς, Εὐρυδίκη, romanized: Orpheus, Eurydikē) concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace for the beautiful Eurydice. Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus and the muse Calliope.
The story of Eurydice may be a late addition to the Orpheus myths. In particular, the name Eurudike ('she whose justice extends widely') recalls cult-titles attached to Persephone. The myth may have been derived from another Orpheus legend in which he travels to Tartarus and charms the goddess Hecate. [10] [clarification needed]
He begged Apollo to let him grieve for the deer forever, and Apollo granted his wish by turning him into a cypress tree, which to this day remains a symbol of sadness and mourning. Roman tradition replaced Apollo with a local Roman woodland god, Silvanus, keeping the other details the same. Daphne ("laurel") Laurel: Peneus/Ladon or Gaia or Zeus
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
A temple of Pythian Apollo, was built in the 7th century BC. The plan measured 19.00 x 16.70 m and it was not peripteral. The walls were solid, made from limestone, and there was a single door on the east side. [citation needed] Thermon (West Greece): The Doric temple of Apollo Thermios, was built in the
The same author recounted that Marsyas was flayed by Apollo who broke the strings of the lyre as well as the harmony he had discovered. The harmony of the strings, however, was rediscovered, when the Muses added later the middle string, Linus struck the string with the forefinger, and Orpheus and Thamyras the lowest string and the one next to ...