#mountparnassus

Apollo, the son of Zeus and Leto and twin of the goddess Artemis, is depicted in Greek mythology as a kouros, a beardless, athletic youth. He is known to be the god of the sun and light, healing, truth and prophecy, music, poetry, and more[1].

Many myths have depicted Apollo as the god of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), the farsighted deity of the Delphic Oracle. In addition to being an oracular god, Apollo is also associated with the double-edged sword of healing and medicine and plague and ill-health, although it has been told that the god’s healing abilities may have been mediated through his son, Asclepius[1].

Apollo has often been depicted holding a lyre devised and given to by Hermes and has come to be associated with the name Apollon Musegetes, or the leader and director of the Muses. Hymns were often sung to the god in his honor, which were known as paeans. In addition, Apollo would also watch over the colonists and protect the herds and flocks[1].

Due to the circumstances of his birth Apollo has been often been linked to wolves and werewolves, and it has been implied that Apollo had his own wolf-form. In fact, Apollo was also worshipped on Mount Lykaion, earning him the additional title of Apollo Lykaios, or Apollo Wolf-God[2].

Legends dictate that Apollo sent a wolf to battle a bull near the city of Argosas a message to Danaus to invade, which he did with success. Afterward, Danaus built and dedicated a sanctuary to Apollo and creating the cult of Apollo Lykeios. At the Apollo sanctuary of the Delphians, there sits a bronze wolf near the altar dedicated to the god. It is said that a thief stole sacred treasure from the sanctuary and hid in the forest on Mount Parnassus where a wolf found and killed him before leading the Delphians to the gold, which lead to the erection of the bronze wolf[3].

Reference links:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykaia#Apollo_Lykaios

Camilla?

That's so awesome! I'm always extremely impressed when I meet people who can mesh math with Latin or Greek in their brains, since it's something that's eluded me. There was a guy in my Latin classes in college who was a double major in Classics and Molecular Microbiology and I was damn impressed by him.

I can definitely see where picking apart math equations and picking apart grammar and long sentences would function similarly for some people. I think unfortunately for me the problem comes when you start getting into the abstracts of math - even precalculus was very difficult for me because I simply could not wrap my brain around all of these theoretical concepts that I could not picture fully in my mind. Greek was actually also difficult for me for that exact reason. Latin is nice and concrete and exact: things follow patterns, and rules, and they just make sense. But in Greek you start dealing with things like aspect as well as tense, and it all just falls apart for me. Trying to figure out the perfect tense and what the hell it was used for was an ordeal for me.