festival of Apollo

... estigious portion of all the beef to be consumed on the occasion of the feasting that followed the hecatomb marking the festival of Apollo. For more on this hecatomb, which involved the sacri ... Continue reading

... xpected to perform in worshipping Apollo on the occasion of his festival. See the anchor comment at O.20.276–280 on the festival of Apollo; also the comment at O.21.429–430. The wording of A ... Continue reading

... naugurates this season of renewal, which is, a festival sacred to Apollo. See the anchor comment at O.20.276–280 on the festival of Apollo. Odysseus effortlessly strings his bow, O.21.409, a ... Continue reading

The wording here at O.21.429–430 is a reference to the festival of Apollo, picking up from O.20.276–280. See the anchor comment on those lines. After having successfully accomplished the two feats of stringing the bo ... Continue reading

In the context of a future celebration, taking place in an unspecified post-epic time at the festival of Apollo, the term hepsiâsthai ‘mock’ may refer to the ridiculing of the suitors by way of blame poetry. Odysseus as speaker here may be speaking beyon ... Continue reading

... t augmented his verbal insults during the feast that followed the sacrifice of one hundred cattle in celebration of the festival of Apollo. See the comment at O.20.292–302. Then at O.22.287–2 ... Continue reading

... sacrifice of a hundred cattle. For further pastoral details, I refer again to the anchor comment at O.20.276–280 on the festival of Apollo. But this festival as narrated here in Rhapsody 22 i ... Continue reading

... ock feast could also be seen as a preview, as it were, of the merry feasting that will happen at a seasonally recurring festival of Apollo in post-heroic time. By now the feasting would be re ... Continue reading