![]() Impressively, Apollo defeated the mighty Python at just four days old. Some stories say it only took a single arrow each time to bring the two monsters down. Apollo wasn’t too pleased and killed both Python and Tityos. While Leto was pregnant, Hera sent Python, a giant snake, to attack her and later sent Tityos, a giant, in an attempt to get her long-awaited revenge. Hera, angry at Zeus’ affair with Leto, tried to kill her in plenty of different ways. Apollo wasted no time in avenging his mother, Leto. King Midas had his ears transformed into donkey ears for not choosing Apollo as the winner of a contest against Pan and Apollo also cheated in a contest with the satyr Marsyas – then, for being his equal in talent, flayed the unfortunate soul alive.ģ. Music is among his most well-known gifts, and he is known to have participated in many musical contests – though, being a god, he could never stand to lose a competition. ![]() He was the god of so many things that even the Ancient Greeks got confused.Īpollo was the god of practically everything – including but not limited to music, poetry, art, prophecy, truth, archery, plague, healing, sun and light (although the god is always associated with the sun, the original sun god was the titan Helios, but everyone forgot about him). The most famous, however, were Daphne, a nymph Apollo fell in love with after being struck with Cupid’s arrow (but Daphne didn’t like him, having been shot with a leaden arrow that caused her to be repulsed by Apollo, so her father, the river god Peneus, turned her into a laurel tree to save her from the god’s advances) and Hyacinthus, a Spartan prince who was loved by both Apollo and Zephyrus (which caused such jealously between them that in the end Zephyrus killed Hyacinthus with a discus to the head). Apollo appears to be, what we might call today, bisexual.Īpollo was not hung up about whether his lovers were male or female. ![]() Though each god is remarkable in their own way, I found Apollo to be particularly interesting. By taking back her confession, Circe’s makes her defiance meaningless.Since I was ten, I have been fascinated by mythology – in particular Greek mythology, with its array of gods, monsters and heroes. He withstood the pain out of principle to disrupt and condemn the gods’ cycle of power and abuse by disobeying them, he showed that the gods do not have unlimited power. Circe, who started the conversation to confess her guilt, hasn’t quite pieced together that Prometheus’s sacrifice was significant in part because he challenged the gods’ power. He only cares that his power is acknowledged and respected. Helios doesn’t appear to care whether or not she transformed Glaucos and Scylla, as he has no sympathy for either. By recanting her confession, Circe reaffirms Helios’s power over her. Circe eventually gives in to the pain and begs forgiveness, which shows that, while she is willing to confess her guilt, she is not willing to fully defy and denounce the gods as Prometheus did. In response, he tortures her, demonstrating how those in power use abuse to subjugate those beneath them-even their own family members. Helios becomes furious with Circe when she contradicts him because he sees her disobedience as a threat to his power. To cast off her family’s cruelty, she must do more than think differently from them-she must act differently than they do, too. She thinks about Prometheus, whose sacrifice inspired her to realize her own agency. But Circe doesn’t want to be like her family, who have caused her pain. Circe, for instance, implements the same philosophy that she sees in her family: she has learned that using power indiscriminately is how a person gets what they want. This suggests that one does not automatically inherit their family’s vices through birth, but that one adopts their family’s patterns of behavior over time. As she remembers, she did not relish Prometheus’s pain when he was tortured, which shows that she does have empathy, unlike so many of her family members. ![]() Although her selfish transformation of Scylla does suggest that Circe is like them-she shares their vices-she has not always been so cruel. To Circe, the gods are all alike in their cruelty, as proven by their collective thrill regarding others’ pain. ![]()
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