It is said that she was so horrified by the deaths of her siblings that her skin turned a sickly shade of white for the rest of her life.ĭevastated by the death of her children, Niobe fled to Mount Sipylus where she wept for days without stopping. The very next day, Niobe's son's were killed by Apollon and her daughters were killed by Artemis, though in some myths, the twins spared one of the innocent children, usually being Meliboea, the youngest of Niobe's children.
Unfortunately, Niobe's claims had enraged the twin gods themselves, Apollo and Artemis, who were extremely protective of their mother and her honor and the two descended to Earth to punish Niobe. Niobe was a mortal woman, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, who once boasted that she was better than Leto as she had fourteen children while Leto only had two. He played the panpipes, which couldn't be played upside down or while singing either. There was a version of this myth where it was Pan who challenged Apollon, not Marsyas. Either way, Marsyas was flayed alive and his skin was hung on an olive tree. In a fit of rage, the god gave him donkey ears for daring to say that his music wasn't as good as a mere satyr's. In a third version, the first round was judged by Minos, a friend of Marsyas, who said that Marsyas was better than Apollon. In another version, he says that the winner would be the one who could sing and play all at once. In a second version, the first round was a draw, and Apollon said that the winner would be the man who could play his instrument upside down.
So Apollon won and because Marsyas had dared to even say that he was even close to being as good at him, he skinned him alive and hung him from a tree. Marsyas played his pipes and he was wonderful but when Apollon played the lyre.he was better. The winner could do anything they want to the loser. This angered Apollo and so Apollon challenged Marsyas to a music competition. One day Marsyas said that he was a better musician that the god of music himself, Apollon. He was a wonderful player of the double flute, an instrument he found abandoned by Athena, and all the forests came to listen to him play the flute. Eros was offended, and decided to play a trick on him, and that is why he caused the trouble with Daphne. It says that he saw Eros playing with his bow, and he insulted him, telling him to "play with his own little bows and arrows" because he had slain a mighty serpent with his bow. Apollon, saddened by her running away from him, took some of the leaves and made a laurel wreath so that she would always be close to him.There is a version of this myth saying that Apollon caused this trouble with Eros. As she turned into a tree, Apollon embraces her. Daphne was frightened so she called to her father, Peneus, and he transformed her into a Laurel tree. But Eros shot Daphne with a lead arrow making her feel hatred for Apollon.
This upset Eros, who shot Apollon with one of his golden arrow to make him fall in love with a beautiful nymph named Daphne. Apollon laughed and said that a child like Eros could never beat him. One day he saw Apollo practicing archery and decided to challenge him to an archery contest. He created his temple and the oracles spoke to the mortals prophecies in which Apollon would give to them to give to mortals.Įros was a very mischievous person and liked to cause all sorts of trouble. So he killed the snake and renamed the place Delphi. The only bad part was that a terrible, giant snake called Python was living there and was terrorizing all the other living creatures there. The little floating island is called Delos.Īpollon was the god of prophecy he decided that he needed a place where mortals could come and ask questions to him and he would use his gift of prophecy to answer them. But Poseidon took pity on Leto and showed her an island that was not attached to the sea floor so it technically was not considered land. Hera was very sour towards her because Zeus was her children's father and Hera disliked that Zeus kept having children with other women and goddesses. When Apollon's mother Leto was in labor with him and his twin sister Artemis, she was looking for a place to give birth, however, Hera had made all land shun her so she was unable to find a place to give birth.
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