Sunday, March 7, 2010

PartXXXI-Catullus64

Apollo- The son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo was the god of music, prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery, poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry, the carer of herds and flocks, the god of light (known as "Phoebus"), the god of plague, the destroyer of rats and locust, and in Homer's Iliad, Apollo shot arrows of plague into the Greek camp.

Mount Idrus-

Moirai- The three Fates, they were the destiny of man. they were assigned to every person for his or her share in the scheme of things. The three were Klotho, Atropos, and Lachesis. They were often lame to show the slow march of fate.

Summary: Catullus writes that the gods sit at the judgment table and eat while the Moirai do their earthly biddings of earth to decide the fate of man.

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