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The Delphic maxims are a set of moral precepts that were inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The three best known maxims – "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess", and "Give a pledge and trouble is at hand" – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally said to have been ...
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.
Although traditionally attributed to the Seven Sages of Greece, or to the god Apollo himself, the inscription likely had its origin in a popular proverb. Ion of Chios makes the earliest explicit allusion to the maxim in a fragment dating to the 5th century BC, though the philosopher Heraclitus , active towards the end of the previous century ...
Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia (1835/1845), as imagined by Eugène Delacroix.. Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi.
The invention of the lyre is attributed either to Hermes or to Apollo himself. [244] Distinctions have been made that Hermes invented lyre made of tortoise shell, whereas the lyre Apollo invented was a regular lyre. [245] Myths tell that the infant Hermes stole a number of Apollo's cows and took them to a cave in the woods near
Marsyas challenged the god Apollo in a music contest, panpipes against lyre, where Apollo was proclaimed as the winner. As punishment, Apollo flayed Marsyas alive. Marsyas' brothers and sisters mourned him so much their tears became a river, the Marsyas in Phrygia, which joined the Maeander near Celaenae. Niobe: Weeping rock Zeus
[3] [5] As a boy, Kraft played in an American Legion drum-and-bugle corps and became the state champion bugler. [6] He went to school in Phoebus, where the only school went to the ninth grade [7] and attended Hampton High School. [5] He was a keen baseball player and continued to play the sport in college; one year he had a batting average of ...
Grissom used this name, plus two others for White and himself, on his Apollo 1 mission planning star charts as a joke, and the succeeding Apollo astronauts kept using the names as a memorial. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] A terrestrial memorial is Chaffee Island, an artificial island off Long Beach, California, created in 1966 for drilling oil (along with ...