Python And Apollo Research Paper

Python and Apollo
Python was born in the filth and muck covering Gaia after the great flood.(Saunders,Chas,and Peter J. Allens eds. “Python- The Greek Demon”) This creature is referred to as a giant snake-like dragon demon. keeping him from causing more trouble than he already he was, they sent him to guard the oracle at Delphi. The Wife of Zeus, Hera, had recently learned of Zeus unfaithfulness with Leto. This was nothing new from Zeus so she persuaded Python to exact her revenge.(Saunders, Chas, and Peter J. Allen, eds. "HERA - the Greek Goddess of Marriage (Greek mythology).") She had python chase Leto and keep her from giving birth anywhere the sun shone. Leto managed to hide out long enough to give birth to Apollo and Artemis, out of the two Apollo, being a god, managed to grow into adulthood during this time of which leto was being hunted by python.
Apollo ,born of Zeus and Leto, is a god of a plethora of things, which include but are not limited to Archery, Poetry, Painting, Prophecy, Healing, and even Plagues.(Saunders,Chas,and Peter J. Allens eds. “Apollo- The greek god of many things) Delos, Apollo’s birthplace, is a very sacred place to apollo but he soon leaves to establish his own oracular shrine. ( Hodges, Jessica Who’s Who in Classical Mythology) He then comes to delphi where
Apollo earned the title of Pythian Apollo and he claims the oracle of delphi as his own. The people whom Python was terrorizing began a contest in apollo’s name known as the Pythian games. The Pythian games were similar to the olympics however they did contain art and dance competitions. Python however, was the daughter of a goddess, so apollo is banished to the Vale of Tempe and is also condemned by Zeus on another occasion to spend a large period in the land of