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The Iliad, Book 1, line 53. Apollo is angered by Agamemnon’s decision to enslave the daughter of Apollo’s priest and make her a concubine. So he sends a plague to the Greek camp resulting in the death of many soldiers. Down he strode from Olympus’ peaks, storming at heart.
For her hubris, Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis killed her daughters. Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions a number of the Niobids were spared.
The Iliad, Book 1, lines 7-10. Homer asks what god drove Agamemnon and Achilles to such a furious conflict. He then answers that it was Apollo, who sends a fatal plague to infect the Greek soldiers because of Agamemnon’s offence to Apollo’s priest.
15 lip 2020 · Apollo and Artemis had each shot him several times for his attack on their mother. Most sources agreed, however, that the story of Tityos did not end with his death. Leto was revered among the gods as well, and they ensured that the giant who attempted to harm her was punished for all eternity.
Apollo and Artemis kill with their arrows the children of Niobe because she offended her mother Leto. [ 126 ] [ 35 ] [ 127 ] In the European and Greek popular religion the arrow-shots from invisible beings can bring diseases and death.
4 paź 2024 · Apollo, in Greco-Roman mythology, a deity of manifold function and meaning, one of the most widely revered and influential of all the ancient Greek and Roman gods. The son of Zeus and Leto, he was the god of crops and herds and the primary deity of the Delphic oracle.
11 kwi 2023 · In another story, Apollo, this time together with his sister Artemis, killed the monster Tityus when he attempted to rape their mother, Leto. In some versions of this story, however, Tityus was killed by Zeus, [20] while in others it was Leto herself who killed him.
