Apollo Greek God Research Paper

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Apollo is an interesting god in Greek mythology with an interesting background. An interesting story about him is when he followed Mother Earth’s Python to Mount Parnassus and “skinned the great snake and saved the hide for a gift.” This caught my attention because I always saw Apollo as a calm, forgiving god. Killing the python seemed very aggressive and I didn’t see that coming from Apollo. Another shocking moment is when Apollo challenges a satyr, Marsyas, to a competition to see who is the better musician and rigs it so that he will win. After Marsyas lost, Apollo “flayed Marsyas alive and nailed his skin to a tree. This act was quite brutal and I didn’t expect it to be done by Apollo. By fixing the competition you see how immature and

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