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Apollo the wolf lord – Apollo king of wolves

  • 29 giugno 2022
Apollo the wolf lord – Apollo king of wolves

APOLLO THE WOLF LORD This painting by Vanessa Foschi depicts Apollo the wolf lord (Lyceus), as Aeschylus sings him at the beginning of the Seven Against Thebes (146). The god was thus invoked in the bitter trial: "And you, king of wolves, become a wolf against the enemy".           THE CITY OF WOLVES Macrobius (Saturnalia, I, 40) affirms that the egyptian city of  Lycopolis venerated Apollo Wolf as the sun, because this animal abducts and consumes everything like the sun and with its exceptional view it conquers the darkness of the night. The same...

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