Apollo

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world. For students of Greek religion and culture, of myth and legend, and in the fields of art and literature, Apollowill provide an informative and enlightening introduction to this powerful figure from the past.

Series foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
List of illustrations	p. xvii
Why Apollo?	p. 1
Introduction: Why Write A Book On A God?	p. 3
Key Themes	p. 7
Apollo In Homer	p. 9
The god of the Iliad	p. 9
Archer, killer, and healer	p. 14
Festivals and sanctuaries of Apollo	p. 19
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo	p. 25
Summary	p. 32
Apollo The Musician	p. 33
The bow and the lyre	p. 33
Mousik&ebar; and Archaic Greek society	p. 34
Lyre and flute	p. 37
Apollo leader of the Muses	p. 39
The paean	p. 41
Divine poets and inspired men	p. 45
Pythagoras and shamanism	p. 48
Apollo Citharoedus	p. 50
Summary	p. 51
Oracular Apollo	p. 52
Apollo's divination	p. 54
The history of the three major oracles of Apollo	p. 56
Methods of divination	p. 62
The prophets of Apollo	p. 64
Other prophets: Cassandra, Helenus, the Sibyl	p. 75
Summary	p. 78
Apollo, God Of Healing	p. 79
Gods and epidemics	p. 79
Apollo (and) Paeon/Paean	p. 81
Other forms of Healing Apollo	p. 84
From Greece to Italy	p. 86
A healer among barbarians	p. 90
Apollo averter of evil	p. 91
Apollo and Asclepius	p. 94
Concepts of healing	p. 98
Summary	p. 101
Apollo, The Young, And The City	p. 103
The young god and the young men, 1: cutting one's hair	p. 103
The young god and the young men, 2: a hapless lover	p. 105
Groups and institutions	p. 106
Ancestral Apollo	p. 108
Apollo Delphinios	p. 109
Molpoi and Curetes	p. 110
Apollo, initiation, and "Männerbund"	p. 112
Archaic institutions in Ionia and Crete	p. 113
Spartan festivals and the adolescents	p. 116
Wolf-Apollo, the Dorian invasion, and the early city	p. 120
Apollo the herdsman and tricky frames of reference	p. 122
Apollo the leader through the ages	p. 124
Summary	p. 128
Origins	p. 130
The quest for origins	p. 130
Apollo's prehistories	p. 134
Mycenaean antecedents	p. 139
Near Eastern influences	p. 139
Summary	p. 142
Apollo Afterwards	p. 143
Apollo's Flourishing Aftermath	p. 145
Late antique allegory and other learned interpretations	p. 146
Apollo the sun	p. 151
Medieval and Renaissance interpreters	p. 153
The dawn of modern scholarship	p. 158
Apollo, god of poetry	p. 159
Apollo and Dionysus	p. 169
Apollo, art, and archaeology	p. 172
Summary	p. 176
Epilogue	p. 179
Further Reading	p. 181
Index	p. 186
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