082 The Leader of the Muses
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the myths, iconography, and cultic worship of Apollo, the god of music, poetry, prophecy, truth, healing, medicine, plague, light, and knowledge, who served as a kind of symbol for young Greek boys to emulate
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/10/082-leader-of-muses.html
Intro by M.C. Williams of Myths Your Teacher Hated Podcast
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to another exciting episode of the history of ancient |
| 0:04.4 | Greece with Ryan Stitt. I'm MC Williams, host of the delightfully naughty |
| 0:08.4 | Ministry Teacher-Hated Podcast, a not-safe-for-work introduction to mythology from around the world with all of the sex and violence left in, |
| 0:15.0 | along with some naughty words for good measure. |
| 0:17.0 | We're just finishing up a long series on the mythic saga of the Trojan War, which heavily features today's topic. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm here to introduce you to one of the most important, |
| 0:25.1 | complex, and contradictory gods of the ancient Greek pantheon, Apollo. He and his twin sister, |
| 0:30.7 | Artemis, were children of Zeus and Lido in one of his many, many dalliances. |
| 0:35.0 | Apollo was the patron god of a weirdly diverse set of things, including music, poetry, art, prophecy, archery, plagues, medicine, farming and hurting, knowledge, light, |
| 0:46.6 | and the sun, along with the minor god Helios. |
| 0:49.2 | He's typically depicted as a beardless teenager with a liar made by Hermes from a tortoise shell and he was known for rocking out with the muses at parties. |
| 0:56.4 | Seriously, he's basically the god of rock and roll. |
| 0:59.6 | He was also one hell of a storyteller so hopefully a probable smile on this episode of |
| 1:04.4 | the history of ancient Greece so sit back relax and prepare to get some knowledge |
| 1:08.7 | dropped on you You're going to be. The The Hello, I'm Ryan Stitt and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece. |
| 1:55.0 | Episode 82, The Leader of the Muses. |
| 2:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by our new September Patreon supporter Rachel Smyth as well as paypal donor Matthew McNaughton. Once again, I do apologize if I didn't pronounce those correctly, but I do thank you for your donations in support of the |
| 2:13.2 | podcast. If you too would like to support the history of ancient Greece, you too can |
| 2:17.5 | become a monthly Patreon supporter or one-time donor at PayPal. Links to the |
| 2:21.7 | various sites are in the show notes. |
| 2:23.9 | And now let us turn our attention back to the ancient Greeks. |
| 2:29.0 | Apollo is one of the most important and complex Olympian deities in Greek religion. |
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