The story of Apollo

once, Apollo saw eros, the little god of love, playing with a bow and arrow. He rudely warned Cupid, "Hey! Bows and arrows are very dangerous things, so children should not play with them casually. " It turns out that eros, the little god of love, has two very special arrows: anyone who is shot with that sharp arrow made of gold will immediately ignite the enthusiasm for love in his heart; If someone is shot by another blunt arrow made of lead, he will hate love very much. Eros was unconvinced by what Apollo said. When Apollo was not paying attention, he shot the arrow of love at Apollo with a whoosh, and Apollo immediately ignited the flame of love. Just then, a beautiful girl named Daphne came. Naughty eros shot the blunt arrow made of lead at Daphne, who was shot, and immediately became very disgusted with love. At this time, Apollo, who was shot by the arrow of love, had fallen in love with Daphne deeply, so he immediately expressed his affection for Daphne. But Daphne was very unhappy and said, "Go away! I hate love! Stay away from me! " He ran away like an antelope into the valley. But Apollo didn't lose heart in pursuing Daphne. He took the harp and played beautiful music. No matter who hears Apollo's piano, he can't help coming to him to listen to his performance. Daphne, who was hiding in the mountains, also heard the beautiful piano sound and was intoxicated unconsciously. "Where did you get such a touching piano sound? I want to see who is playing. " With that, Daphne had already been fascinated by the sound of the piano and went to Apollo. Apollo, who was hiding behind a big stone and playing the harp, immediately jumped out and went forward to hug Daphne. Daphne saw Apollo and ran away. Apollo chased after him and shouted, "I'm not your enemy, nor a fierce beast, nor an unreasonable fool. Why are you avoiding me?" Although Apollo kept shouting at Daphne in the back, Daphne still ignored it and continued to run forward. But Daphne can't run faster than Apollo. After running for a long time, Daphne was exhausted and out of breath. Finally, she fell to the ground and watched Apollo catch up. Daphne was so anxious that she shouted, "Help! Help! " At this time, the river god heard Daphne's cry for help and immediately turned her into a laurel tree with divine power. I saw Daphne's hair turned into leaves, her wrists into branches, her legs into trunks, her feet and toes into roots, and she was deeply rooted in the soil. Apollo was very sorry to see it. He cried sadly with the laurel, but the laurel kept shaking. Although Daphne has become a laurel tree, Apollo still loves her. Apollo stared at the laurel tree and said spoonily, "Although you can't be my wife, I will love you forever. I will make my laurel with your branches and leaves, my harp with your wood, and my bow with your flowers. At the same time, I will give you eternal youth and will not get old. " Daphne, who became a laurel tree, was deeply moved and nodded her head again and again to express her gratitude. Perhaps thanks to the blessing of Apollo, the laurel is evergreen all the year round, and it is a kind of popular plant. Apollo and Cassandra are the third daughters of Princess Troy, King Priam and Queen Hecobber. Homer's Iliad says that she is as beautiful as the golden Aphrodite and the most beautiful daughter of Priam. Euripides' The Trojan women said that she was a priest of Apollo. Homer's poetry annotators cite the legend that Cassandra and Helenus are twins. His home is in Apollo? The temple of Thymbraean was sacrificed to celebrate, and the family got drunk and left Cassandra and Herenos in the temple. The family woke up the next day and went to the temple to look for it. When they saw a snake washing its ears with its tongue as its second son, they screamed loudly. The snake sneaked into the branches of osmanthus and disappeared. Cassandra and Helena were able to foresee the future. Another way of saying that the source of prophecy is the gift of Apollo. The reasons why Apollo cursed Cassandra are different in ancient Greek and Roman works: 1. Cassandra played in the temple of Apollo and fell asleep when she was tired. Apollo's attempt to hug Cassandra was met with resistance, and her prediction was not believed. See Hyginus's Fabulae.

2. Apollodorus' The library mentioned that "Apollon (other translated names of Apollo) wanted to meet Cassandra and promised to teach her divination. She learned it, but she didn't meet him, so Apollon took away her creditable power of divination. (translated by Zhou Zuoren) 3. Aeschylus' Agamemnon', according to Luo Niansheng's translation, Cassandra promised to commit herself to Apollo but disappointed him. Since then, no one has believed her. But in other translations, "He is a wrestler, and his kindness is sprayed on me. (Translated by Lv Jianzhong) "He hugged me, threw me down, and exhaled sweet desire" (Translated by Chen Zhong Mei) "He twisted with me, and at the same time he gasped with excitement. (Translated by Liu Yuxiu) It seems that there is a close relationship with the skin. Later, it is mentioned that the reason for the break is because Cassandra promised to give birth to children for him, but her words failed. Mr. Li Yixue, a researcher at Academia Sinica, explained the entanglement between Apollo and Cassandra with the concept of holy marriage in the article Dawn after a Long Night-On a Theme Story of Olers Tia. After the Trojan War, in euripides's Trojan Women, Cassandra mentioned that Agamemnon's marriage to her would be more harmful to him than Helen's as long as Roxas (the alias of Apollo) existed. In obscure language, she said that this marriage would lead to the fight against mother and the decline of Atreus family, and predicted the ending of cobber and Odysseus. Here, Apollo and Sun Chariot should make a serious statement. Because of the confusion between Apollo and Helius in later generations, everyone thinks that Sun Chariot is driven by Apollo, but it is not. However, it is necessary to seriously explain why this happens. There are two kinds of stories here, which are said to come from Greek drama. The reason is that many contradictions have arisen because of the confusion between Apollo and Helius by later generations, so we have to make up some stories to connect them, such as Helius's stepping down and Apollo's accession to the throne, but these are just drama plots, so they are by no means orthodox Greek myths. Let's take a look. The first argument is that Zeus began to divide the gods after the Olympians defeated the Titan. Apollo took the opportunity to ask him to drive the sun chariot. At that time, Zeus forgot to promise Helius, the sun god. Afterwards, although the sun god was Helius, it was Apollo who drove the sun chariot. Another way of saying it: In Greek mythology, the son of Helius, the sun god, always dreamed of driving his father's sun chariot. However, he has no ability to control this splendid chariot, nor can he control the galloping horse. Finally, Zeus, the father of the gods, stopped the chariot, saved the young Phaeton, and gave Apollo the right to control the sun chariot. The appearance of the sun chariot is that there are several (about 4) horses with golden light in front, the body is made of gold, and the horses and cars emit golden light and heat. Because many dramas and stories of later generations say that Apollo was driving the sun carriage, people thought that Apollo was the sun god, which is a serious mistake for modern people to understand ancient Greek mythology. Classical Latin poets often regard "Phobos" as a replacement word for sun-god (replacement word: a synonym or synonym used to replace the original word because it prevents a word from appearing too many times in an article from affecting the artistic level of the article). Since then, "Phobos and his chariot" has once become a very fashionable metaphor for the sun. Interestingly, in most apotheosis stories, although Apollo was also called Phobos, he was never named as the son of Hyperion and the commander of the sun chariot, and Apollo himself was never lucky enough to drive a sun car under the pen of an ancient Greek poet. In other words, the sun car was always a patent of Helius. At this point, in the third game of the famous PS game God of War, Kratos killed Helius instead of Apollo, which also proved that the sun god was not Apollo. Furthermore, the statue of the sun god, one of the seven wonders of the world, is not dedicated to Apollo, but to Helius, the sun god.