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Ion (/ ˈ aɪ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἴων, Iōn) is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to have been written between 414 and 412 BC. It follows the orphan Ion, a young and willing servant in Apollo's temple, as he inadvertently discovers his biological origins. As it unfolds the play is also the powerful story of his mother, Creusa ...
Henceforth, Apollo became the god who cleansed himself from the sin of murder, made men aware of their guilt and purified them. [210] The Pythian games were also established by Apollo, either as funeral games to honor Python [185] [211] or to celebrate his own victory.
Rousing himself each night toward dawn and climbing the mountain called Pangaion, he would await the Sun's rising, so that he might see it first. Therefore, Dionysus, being angry with him, sent the Bassarides , as Aeschylus the tragedian says; they tore him apart and scattered the limbs.
Stobaeus cites a certain Sosiades as his source, but the identity of Sosiades is unknown, and it was once thought that this collection of maxims was of no great antiquity. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] In 1901, however, a parallel collection was discovered at Miletopolis in modern-day Turkey , inscribed on a stele dating from the 3rd or 4th century BC.
Nov. 15—A Bigfork man arrested after allegedly killing a motorcyclist in an alcohol-fueled collision near Somers last year is facing 15 years in state prison. Apollo Tomas Guisto, 51, initially ...
Marsyas receiving Apollo's punishment, İstanbul Archaeology Museum. In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (/ ˈ m ɑːr s i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; [1] [2] in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.
The news agency distributed carefully edited clips to its video clients — not showing the moment the man lit himself on fire, for example, said executive producer Tom Williams.
A man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where the jurors are being chosen for former president Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial. CNN’s chief legal analyst Laura Coates and ...