Dating the Greek Gods
Empowering Spiritual Messages on Sex and Love, Creativity and Wisdom
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Chapter One: Apollo: The God of Wisdom
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Apollo is the Mr. Right of the Greek pantheon. A son of almighty Zeus, the king of the gods, and one of Zeus's many mistresses - the lovely Leto - Apollo is generally described as tall, dark, and handsome. A Homeric hymn to Apollo tells us that when the young god with his long, curling black hair first appeared on Mount Olympus and drew his bow, all the gods and goddesses rose from their seats in astonishment.
Gazing at a marble frieze of the gods and goddesses making up the pantheon, Nietzsche, the German philosopher and classicist, wrote of Apollo's special star quality: "We must not be misled by the fact that Apollo stands side by side with the others as an individual deity, without any claim to priority of rank. For the same impulse that embodies itself in Apollo gave birth to this entire Olympian world, and in this sense Apollo is its father."
Apollo was a player. His love life was protean, but his success with women wasn't as stellar as might be expected. D ... read full excerpt from Dating the Greek Gods: Empowering Spiritual Messages on Sex and Love, Creativity and Wisdon ebook
