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Apollon and Artemis
The Delphians, perceiving it, composed a paean and a song, and arranged dances
of young men round the tripod, and called upon the god to come from the
Hyperboreoi. He, after he had spent a whole year1 in giving law to the men
that were there, thought that the right time was come for the Delphic tripods
too to be sounding, so bade his swans fly back again from the Hyperboreoi.
Now it was summer, indeed midsummer, when, according to Alkaios, Apollon
was brought from the Hyperboreoi. Hence, at the time when summer shines
forth and Apollon is here, the lyre too brightens into a summer strain concerning
the god. Nightingales sing for him as one would expect birds to sing in
Alkaios. Swallows also sing and cicalas, not telling of their own fortunes among
men, but voicing all their songs about the god. Kastalia too in poetic wise
rolls her silver streams, and Kephissos rises high with tossing waves after the
likeness of Homer's Enipeus. For Alkaios, like Homer, does his utmost to
make the very water able to feel the god's advent.'
From this prosified extract we learn that, at the close of the seventh
century B.C., Apollon was supposed to have reached the land of the
Hyperboreans by traversing the air with a team of swans2. His track
1 6 5e eros 6\ov irapa rots iicet de/ULarevcras dvdpilnrois, /c.r.X. This §tos is presumably
a year of twelve months, not a great year {evtavrbs: see supra i. 540 n. 1).
2 For Apollon (a) drawn by swans or (b) riding on a swan see L. Stephani in the
Co»ipte-rendu St. PJt. 1863 pp. 29 ff., 80 ff., A. Kalkmann in the /ahrb. d. kais. deutsch.
arch. Inst. 1886 i. 233 m, Overbeck Gr. A'unstmyth. Apollon pp. 312, 350—354, 494 f.,
P. Hartwig Die griechischen Meisterschalen der Bliithezeit des strengen rothfgurigen Stiles
Stuttgart—Berlin 1893 p. 188 f., L. Malten Kyrene Berlin 1911 pp. 8f., 43.
(a) The former type is known to us from one example only—an engraved smdragdos
of Roman work at Petrograd, of which a modern paste
copy existed in the Stosch collection and passed with
it to Berlin (fig. 358 (scale f) after Overbeck op. cit.
Apollon p. 495 fig. 24 = F. Studniczka in Roscher
Lex. Myth. ii. 1727 fig. 3), representing Apollon with
bay-branch and quiver as he bears off the reluctant
Kyrene in a chariot drawn by two swans (cp. schol.
Ap. Rhod. 2. 498 ^epeKvS-r^s 5e <pr)<ri {frag. 9 {Frag,
hist. Gr. i. 72 Muller)) koX "Apaidos {frag. 4 {Frag,
hist. Gr. iv. 319 Muller)) sttI kijkvwv aiiT-qv 6xv@el<tav
/caret 'AiroWwvos ir poaipeaiv els tt)v Kvprjvrjv acpLKecrdat,
Philostr. min. imagg. 14. 2 Apollon promises Hya-
kinthos Swaeiv.. .vwep kvkvoov (kvkvov cod. P. and ed.
Aid. C. F. W. Jacobs cj. kvkvov) avrbv bxovjxevov irepLtroKelv %co/3ta, 6'cra ' ATroXXa^os <pi\a,
Nonn. Dion. 8. 226 ff". el 8e aoi oiipavbdev irbcris ijXvde /caXos 'AirbXXwv | /cat Se^ieX??? vtt
Zpiori \e\a<Tfxevos ^irXero Aa<pvr)s, | vbarpL 8b\ov Kpv<ploio 5i' ijepos els ae xopevcry (D. F. Graefe
cj. xopetVat) | d/3pos affiyrjnov eiroxyifJ-evos apfiarc kvkvwv,—quoted by O. Jahn in the Ber.
sacks. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe 1852 p. 60 n. 26).
{b) The latter type is fairly common in vase-paintings, terra-cottas, coins, etc. The
earliest of the vases is a fragmentary kylix from the beginning of s. v B.C. (P. Hartwig
op. cit. p. 188 f. pi. 18, 3). The earliest coins are electrum stateres of Kyzikos struck
c. 400—350 B.C. (W. Greenwell 'The electrum coinage of Cyzicus' in the Num. Chron.
Third Series 1887 vii. 57 f. pi. t, 22 Paris, id. ib. Third Series 1S90 x. 22 pi. 3, 3 Green-
wrell collection (excellent specimen), Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 33 pi. 8, 13, Babelon
Monn. gr. rom. ii. 2. 1431 f. pi. 175, 16). I illustrate (pi. xxv) a hydria of late red-figured
style, found in Kyrenaike, preserved in the British Museum, and hitherto unpublished
(Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. 182 f. no. E 232, Overbeck op. cit. Apollon p. 350 no. 2,
Apollon and Artemis
The Delphians, perceiving it, composed a paean and a song, and arranged dances
of young men round the tripod, and called upon the god to come from the
Hyperboreoi. He, after he had spent a whole year1 in giving law to the men
that were there, thought that the right time was come for the Delphic tripods
too to be sounding, so bade his swans fly back again from the Hyperboreoi.
Now it was summer, indeed midsummer, when, according to Alkaios, Apollon
was brought from the Hyperboreoi. Hence, at the time when summer shines
forth and Apollon is here, the lyre too brightens into a summer strain concerning
the god. Nightingales sing for him as one would expect birds to sing in
Alkaios. Swallows also sing and cicalas, not telling of their own fortunes among
men, but voicing all their songs about the god. Kastalia too in poetic wise
rolls her silver streams, and Kephissos rises high with tossing waves after the
likeness of Homer's Enipeus. For Alkaios, like Homer, does his utmost to
make the very water able to feel the god's advent.'
From this prosified extract we learn that, at the close of the seventh
century B.C., Apollon was supposed to have reached the land of the
Hyperboreans by traversing the air with a team of swans2. His track
1 6 5e eros 6\ov irapa rots iicet de/ULarevcras dvdpilnrois, /c.r.X. This §tos is presumably
a year of twelve months, not a great year {evtavrbs: see supra i. 540 n. 1).
2 For Apollon (a) drawn by swans or (b) riding on a swan see L. Stephani in the
Co»ipte-rendu St. PJt. 1863 pp. 29 ff., 80 ff., A. Kalkmann in the /ahrb. d. kais. deutsch.
arch. Inst. 1886 i. 233 m, Overbeck Gr. A'unstmyth. Apollon pp. 312, 350—354, 494 f.,
P. Hartwig Die griechischen Meisterschalen der Bliithezeit des strengen rothfgurigen Stiles
Stuttgart—Berlin 1893 p. 188 f., L. Malten Kyrene Berlin 1911 pp. 8f., 43.
(a) The former type is known to us from one example only—an engraved smdragdos
of Roman work at Petrograd, of which a modern paste
copy existed in the Stosch collection and passed with
it to Berlin (fig. 358 (scale f) after Overbeck op. cit.
Apollon p. 495 fig. 24 = F. Studniczka in Roscher
Lex. Myth. ii. 1727 fig. 3), representing Apollon with
bay-branch and quiver as he bears off the reluctant
Kyrene in a chariot drawn by two swans (cp. schol.
Ap. Rhod. 2. 498 ^epeKvS-r^s 5e <pr)<ri {frag. 9 {Frag,
hist. Gr. i. 72 Muller)) koX "Apaidos {frag. 4 {Frag,
hist. Gr. iv. 319 Muller)) sttI kijkvwv aiiT-qv 6xv@el<tav
/caret 'AiroWwvos ir poaipeaiv els tt)v Kvprjvrjv acpLKecrdat,
Philostr. min. imagg. 14. 2 Apollon promises Hya-
kinthos Swaeiv.. .vwep kvkvoov (kvkvov cod. P. and ed.
Aid. C. F. W. Jacobs cj. kvkvov) avrbv bxovjxevov irepLtroKelv %co/3ta, 6'cra ' ATroXXa^os <pi\a,
Nonn. Dion. 8. 226 ff". el 8e aoi oiipavbdev irbcris ijXvde /caXos 'AirbXXwv | /cat Se^ieX??? vtt
Zpiori \e\a<Tfxevos ^irXero Aa<pvr)s, | vbarpL 8b\ov Kpv<ploio 5i' ijepos els ae xopevcry (D. F. Graefe
cj. xopetVat) | d/3pos affiyrjnov eiroxyifJ-evos apfiarc kvkvwv,—quoted by O. Jahn in the Ber.
sacks. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe 1852 p. 60 n. 26).
{b) The latter type is fairly common in vase-paintings, terra-cottas, coins, etc. The
earliest of the vases is a fragmentary kylix from the beginning of s. v B.C. (P. Hartwig
op. cit. p. 188 f. pi. 18, 3). The earliest coins are electrum stateres of Kyzikos struck
c. 400—350 B.C. (W. Greenwell 'The electrum coinage of Cyzicus' in the Num. Chron.
Third Series 1887 vii. 57 f. pi. t, 22 Paris, id. ib. Third Series 1S90 x. 22 pi. 3, 3 Green-
wrell collection (excellent specimen), Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 33 pi. 8, 13, Babelon
Monn. gr. rom. ii. 2. 1431 f. pi. 175, 16). I illustrate (pi. xxv) a hydria of late red-figured
style, found in Kyrenaike, preserved in the British Museum, and hitherto unpublished
(Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. 182 f. no. E 232, Overbeck op. cit. Apollon p. 350 no. 2,