Research Paper On Apollo The Greek God

Sun god Apollo/his haikus are terrible/but he thinks they’re great. Apollo is a unique god because he acts the most human, is one of the most powerful gods, and has a terrible love life. Born on the island of Delos, with help and assistance of his twin sister Artemis, Apollo is the god of several things: the sun, archery, prophecy, music, poetry, and medicine, plague and disease. He glowed and shimmered like the sun and at laurel leaves in his hair. He’s also the patron of bachelors, so he’s had quite a few lovers (James).

From the beginning of times, music has played an important role in everyone’s life. At first, it started with drum-based and percussion instruments made out of what was available as rocks and sticks. Our ancestors proved that human beings have an innate need of music. Nowadays, no one teaches a baby to follow the beat of a song, he just naturally lets his body get involved with the rhythm. Since the prehistoric era to Christian times, several forms of music have developed leaving a trail to new genres of music. For Christianity, hymns and plainchants were the first forms of music considered as a worship to God. As time passed by, Christian music has evolved giving way to new and fresh sounds.

-Apollo was nursed with nectar and ambrosia and suddenly was a powerful god and he decided that the lyre and the bow were his instruments and he would tell the word of Zeus to humans. Leto was thrilled and Delos was prosperous.

This essay is separated into four parts by the approach used to analyze the music preformed by Paul Brandt on April 5th, 2017 as part of a religious studies course focusing on religion and music at the University of Calgary, RELS373. Scott provides a standard of music’s role in cultures, explained in lecture, culture is seen as a product of religion, geographic location, and language. The phenomenon of a spiritual experience due to music is explained through the perception of William James. The metaphysical nature of music is analyzed philosophically, from the point of view of Rudolph Otto. The experience of praise (to God) is analyzed with a doxological approach through the lenses of James Frazer and Dietterich.

Greek Mythology, used to explain the unknown. The Greeks never had the technology to discover why things happened the way they did. For that reason, they would believe in stories about Gods and Goddesses that determined their everyday lives. They would worship and sacrifice living beings to show their respect for the Gods. Over time, they developed the story of how the world was created, their main Gods and Goddesses, and traditions and rituals.

Music played a significant role in the lives of ancient Greeks. They believed that music fostered one’s relationship with the gods, and some instruments, such as the lyre, were created by the gods. Music and dance were also taught

In the Greek civilization, the gods and goddesses were a major influence on the Greeks. The Greek gods and goddesses consisted of the twelve Olympian gods who lived on Mount Olympus. These twelve Olympic gods included the three major gods: Zeus; ruler of the gods; Poseidon, god of the sea; and Hades, god of the underworld. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades were brothers commonly referred to as “The Big Three” in books such as Percy Jackson, by Rick Riordan, and the Pegasus series, by Kate O’Hearn. They were also sons of the Titan King Kronos.

-Apollo promised Hermes that he would be the messenger to the gods and that him and Maia would have fame amongst the gods. Hermes decided to give the lyre to Apollo and deemed that he would be a master of music. In exchange, Apollo granted Hermes a whip and put him in charge of the cattle. They went back to Olympus and Zeus bonded them as

There once was a God named Apollo. He was the God of many things, like the god of archery and poetry. He also has much more including medicine, music, plague, the sun, and prophecy. One day while Apollo was in the forest shooting arrows at a target. When a lost women named Fiona came by. Apollo thought this woman was beautiful. Now if you didn’t know, Apollo was not good with girls. He could never make them stay. Anyway back to the story, Fiona thought Apollo was very handsome. So they decided to get married and live together on Mnt. Olympus forever, even though it was forbidden.

Composer George Lloyd once stated that “The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.” These myths, ranging from the stories of the gods themselves to epic poems like Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, teach the ancient Greeks lessons on different morals and how to live. Lessons of loyalty to loved ones, humans cause extra suffering to themselves, and sacrificing for an end goal can be found within The Odyssey.

The incorporation of new musical styles had great impact on the Delphic soundscape: Sakadas won through the performance of the Pythikos nomos, an auletic composition that depicted Apollo`s victory over the Python, and that agonal piece eventually became a standard fare in Pythian competitions. The prestige of the winning musicians served in negotiating and formalizing human hierarchies – hierarchies of winning musicians - but also in constituting a new performative hierarchy – a hierarchy based on winning sound-patterns. On the competitive stage, the victorious soundscape, such as the Pythikos nomos of Sakadas, was being transformed into the "correct" soundscape, and thus, the musical competitions became the main mechanism for the incorporation

Mythology is the study of myths, especially ones belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition. When I first signed up for the class, I knew a little bit about Greek Mythology. I had a lot of knowledge on the gods and goddesses from the Greek and Roman cultures. My favorite god probably is Apollo from the Greek culture. Apollo has been recognized as the god of music, truth, and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry and much more. Apollo has a twin sister, who is another goddess, Artemis the chaste huntress.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.Greek myth is comprised of many Gods and Goddesses and the stories of how they came to be and of their life stories. And this is the story of the God apollo One God that caught my eye was Apollo, was associated with many aspects of life in the time of the Greek gods. Apollo’s father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus, though married to Hera, had some problems with fidelity. He impregnated Leto, the daughter of a Titan.When he was four days old, he asked Hephaestus to make him silver bows and arrows. Hephaestus created them for him. Apollo was

He also had a music contest with the satyr Marsyas. He was a Phrygian Satyr who invented the music of the flute he. When challenged by Apollo to a musical contest he lost. Apollo demanded they play their instruments upside down in the second round. As punishment for his hubris, Apollon had Marsyas tied to a tree and flayed alive.

The flute plays throughout the play through stage directions interpreted by editor L.R. Lind. Mostly, the flute is played as Admetus speaks and is quite prominent throughout lines 863-902 where Admetus truly understands why Alcestis gave her life and begins to envy Alcestis in her death. These places of flute are also mentions of the presence of Apollo and perhaps show where he aids Admetus in understanding the reason for Alcestis’s sacrifice. The most important concept that can be derived from the above material is that Apollo is a god known for oracles at Delphi.