082 - The Leader of the Muses

In this episode, we discuss the myths, iconography, and cultic worship of Apollo, the god of music, poetry, prophecy, truth, healing, medicine, plague, light, and knowledge, who served as a kind of symbol for young Greek boys to emulate

Primary Sources:

Text/Homeric Hymn to Apollo

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

• Photo/Mount Cynthus at Delos

• Photo/Archaic Statue Group of Lions at Delos

• Photo/Pen-and-Wash Restoration of Temple of Apollo at Delos

• Photo/Ruins of Temple of Apollo Smintheus at Chryse

• Photo/Columns of Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae

• Photo/Corinthian Vase-Painting of Herakles and Pholos

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Herakles and Pholos

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Chiron, Peleus, Thetis, and a Nereid

• Photo/Vase-Painting on Lekythos of Chiron and Achilles

• Photo/Etruscan Vase-Painting of Chiron and Achilles

• Photo/Roman Fresco of Chiron Instructing a Young Achilles (from Herculaneum)

• Photo/Roman Sarcophagus of Chiron and Achilles

Video/Daphne and Hyacinthus (Monarchs Factory)

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Zephyr and Hyakinthos

• Photo/Statue of a Kouros

• Photo/The "Piraeus Apollo"

• Photo/Apollo of the Belvedere (Roman copy of Greek original)

• Photo/Roman Statue of Apollo Seated with a Lyre

• Photo/Vase-Panting of a Muse Reading a Scroll

• Photo/Roman Sarcophagus of the Nine Muses and their Attributes

• Photo/Roman Statue of Erato

• Photo/Roman Statue of Melpomene

• Photo/Roman Statue of Polyhymnia

• Photo/Roman Statue of Terpsichore

• Photo/Roman Statue of Thalia

• Photo/Roman Statue of Urania

• Photo/Bust of Helios

• Photo/Relief of Helios Riding his Chariot on Temple of Athena at Ilion

• Photo/Roman Sarcophagus of the Fall of Phaethon

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Eos in her Chariot

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Eos and Memnon (her deceased son)

Video/Aristaeus the Apiarian (Monarchs Factory)

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

Myths and Legends Episode 91 Greek Myths: Fatherhood

MythTake Episode 04 Helios
MythTake Episode 20 Homeric Hymn to Apollo (Part 1)
MythTake Episode 22 Homeric Hymn to Apollo (Part 2)
MythTake Episode 23 Homeric Hymn to Apollo (Part 3)

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