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Chrysothemis, daughter of Carmator and the first winner of the oldest contest held at the Pythian Games, the singing of a hymn to Apollo. She was the wife of Staphylus or a lover of Apollo. [2] [3] [4] Chrysothemis, a Hesperide pictured and named on an ancient vase together with Asterope, Hygieia and Lipara. [5] Chrysothemis, daughter of Danaus.
Chrysothemis was the daughter of Carmanor of Crete, the priest who purified Apollo and Artemis after the killing of Python, a chthonic serpent deity that presided over the Delphic oracle. When Apollo slew the serpent at the Delphi shrine, he claimed the site for himself. But, for his act of sacrilege, Zeus ordered him to be purified.
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The title page of Étienne Clavier's 1805 edition and French translation of the Bibliotheca. The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD.
[234] [235] Apollo's harmonious music delivered people from their pain, and hence, like Dionysus, he is also called the liberator. [159] The swans, which were considered to be the most musical among the birds, were believed to be the "singers of Apollo". They are Apollo's sacred birds and acted as his vehicle during his travel to Hyperborea. [159]
When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of Smilax; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant. [4] In the tradition in which his mother was Acacallis, the daughter of Minos, fearing her father's wrath, exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.
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Anius was born either on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, or on Euboea, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Staphylus when he had discovered her pregnancy was washed ashore there. Rhoeo then, placing the baby on Apollo's altar, asked the god to care for it, if it was his. [1]