Category: Juvenilia
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A Tenuous Account of Apollo
0. Apollo is inscrutable. I’m at first unable to even roughly sketch his domain, in the way I can for Aphrodite (love) or Poseidon (the sea). But one of his Homeric hymns has the faintest whiff of answers. 1. First let’s delineate the scope of the hymns, so that my bout of logorrhea stains only…