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Apollo and Artemis

Apollo and Artemis were twin children of Zeus and the

titaness, Leto.Artemis was the goddess of the moon and hunting and protected wild animals.Apollo was the sun god and patron of the arts.The raven was his special bird.Both Apollo and Artemis are associated with woodland.

Zeus tried to keep his affair with

Leto a secret, but Hera was not fooled.She sent her giant snake, Python, after Leto who ran until she collapsed.The south wind then lifted her over to the island of Ortygia.Here Artemis was born.She grew up instantly and helped

Leto over to the island of Delos where she gave birth to Apollo.The birth of Artemis and Apollo

The Greeks believed the sun and moon were drawn across the sky in chariots.

The sun was drawn by Apollo’s golden horses.The moon by Artemis’s silver stags.Chariots of the gods

The punishment of

NiobeQueen Niobe of Thebes boasted she was better than Leto as she had 7 daughters and 7 sons while Leto only had one of each.

To punish her, Apollo and Artemis killed all except 2 of her children.

Niobe

mourned so bitterly that Zeus took pity on her and turned her to stone on Mount Sipylus so she could no longer feel her grief.But each year when the melting snow ran off the mountain, the Greeks said it was Niobe’s tears.

Apollo tamed the 9 muses, wild goddesses who inspired artists.

He became God of the arts.He loved music and played the Lyre.The Muses

Apollo’s Laurel wreath

Apollo pursued a nymph called Daphne, who did not want his attentions.She ran away, praying to Mother Earth to save her.Just as he caught her, her prayers were answered and she was turned into a laurel tree.Apollo wore a wreath of laurel leaves in her memory.

The fate of

ClytiaApollo had an affair with a human princess named Leucothea, daughter of Orchamus and sister of

Clytia.Clytia, jealous of her sister because she wanted Apollo for herself, told Orchamus the truth, betraying her sister.

Enraged, Orchamus ordered Leucothea to be buried alive. Apollo refused to forgive

Clytia

for betraying his

beloved,so

he changed her into a sunflower, which follows the sun every day.

Apollo also fell in love with Cassandra.

He promised Cassandra the gift of prophecy to seduce her, but she rejected him afterwards. Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future. He cursed her that she could only see future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.Cassandra

The Oracle of Apollo

Apollo hunted down the Python that chased his mother.He killed it at Delphi (formerly called Pytho) and a huge temple was built to him there.He gave his priestesses the gift of telling the future.Their prophecies, or

Oracles, were famous throughout Greece.

The quarrel over Asclepius

Apollo’s arrows brought plague and death but he also had healing powers, which was passed on to his son Asclepius.He became a great doctor but went too far when he started raising the dead.

Hades considered these his subjects and demanded that this be stopped.

Zeus killed Asclepius and in retaliation Apollo killed the Cyclopes.(who made Zeus’s thunder bolts)Zeus would have sent him to Tartarus but for Letos pleading. (It is said that his punishment was Zeus banned him from the night sky)

The Music contest

The satyr, Marsyas, claimed to be a better musician than Apollo, so the god suggested a competition.Marsyas played a flute he had found. Not knowing it was the one

Athene had cursed.They played equally well until Apollo challenged Marsyas to play his instrument upside down and sing at the same time.

This was possible with a lyre but not with a flute, so

Marsyas lost.The price of defeat was death and Apollo killed Marsyas.

Actaeon

was a man caught spying on Artemis while she was bathing.She turned him into a stag and her hounds hunted and killed him.The death of Actaeon

Artemis and her nymphs loved hunting and swore to have nothing to do with men.

Callisto broke her vow by falling in love with Zeus.In revenge, Hera turned her into a bear and Artemis set her hounds on the nymph.Zeus saved her before she was torn apart and placed her image in the stars as the Great Bear.Callisto the Nymph

Artemis and Agamemnon

Artemis was angry with king Agamemnon. He was preparing to send an army against Troy.She sent contrary winds so he could not sail and demanded the sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease her.Agamemnon was about to obey, when Artemis snatched the girl and put a deer in her place.Iphigenia was taken to safety and became a priestess of Artemis.