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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Apollo

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Plutarch, in his life of "Numa", reveals two male loves of Apollo.

"Not that it is otherwise than befitting to suppose that the gods feel towards men affecton and love, in the sense of afffection, and in the form of care and solicitude for their virtue and their good dispositions."

"And, therefore, it was not error of those who feigned that Phorbas, Giacinto, and Admeto, were beloved by Apollo."

"Or that Ippolito was so much in Apollo's favour that as often as he sailed from Sicyon to Cirrah, the Phytian prophetess uttered this heroic verse, expressive of Apollo's attention and joy."

"Now doth Ippolito return again,
and venture his life upon the main."

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Plutarch is the only author, incidentally, who reports that Apollo loved Ippolito and Phorbas.

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Plutarch is alluding to the Hellenistic reworkings of old traditions, parallel to those that made copules of Heracles and Eurystheus, Hypnos and Endymion, and perhaps also Apollo and Admeto.

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