\u201cSo although we approve of many things in Homer, this we will
\nnot approve of… nor will we approve of Aeschylus when he
\nmakes Thetis say that Apollo sang at her wedding in
\ncelebration of her child:<\/p>\n
that he would not know sickness, would live long,
\nand that every blessing would be his;
\nand he sang such praises that he rejoiced my heart.
\nAnd I had hopes that the divine lips of Apollo,
\nfluent with the art of prophecy, would not prove false.
\nBut he who proclaimed these things…
\nhe it is
\nwho killed my son…\u201d
\nPlato, Republic, II. 383<\/p>\n
At the marriage of Thetis and Peleus
\nApollo stood up during the sumptuous wedding feast
\nand blessed the bridal pair
\nfor the son who would come from their union.
\n\u201cSickness will never visit him,\u201d he said,
\n\u201cand his life will be a long one.\u201d
\nThis pleased Thetis immensely:
\nthe words of Apollo, expert in prophecies,
\nseemed to guarantee the security of her child.
\nAnd when Achilles grew up
\nand his beauty was the boast of Thessaly,
\nThetis remembered the god\u2019s words.
\nBut one day elders arrived with the news
\nthat Achilles had been killed at Troy.
\nThetis tore her purple robes,
\npulled off her rings, her bracelets,
\nand flung them to the ground.
\nAnd in her grief, recalling that wedding scene,
\nshe asked what the wise Apollo was up to,
\nwhere was this poet who holds forth
\nso eloquently at banquets, where was this prophet
\nwhen they killed her son in his prime.
\nAnd the elders answered that Apollo himself
\nhad gone down to Troy
\nand together with the Trojans had killed her son.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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