“Apollo Lykeios.
The voice of Parthena, the wetnurse. The god of the wolves and the mice:
she knew dark stories about him which she whispered to me and which I was
not supposed to repeat to anyone. I would never have thought that this
ambivalent god could be identical to our unimpeachable Apollo in the temple.”
(Pg. 15-16)
Odilon Redon. Chariot of Apollo.
1912.
“‘Apollo is
also the god of the Muses, is he not?’ He knew how to insult me, that Greek.
He managed to convey that he regarded as barbaric the crude profile which
we peoples of Asia Minor gave his god.” (Pg. 26)
Edward Burne-Jones. Sibylla Delphica.
1868.
About the painting: Sibylla Delphica,
or the Delphic Sibyl, was the priestess of Apollo who presided over the
Oracle at Delphi, where she wrote her prophecies on bay leaves .
