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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
21:12
The odyssey.
In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo is the ideal of the kuoros (a beardless youth), the god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery, and also a bringer of deadly plagues. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and also has a twin sister, the chaste hunter Artemis, who took the place of Selene in some myths as the goddess of the moon.Greek statues of Apollo portray him as the embodiment of ideal male form. He is also known as Phoebus Apollo and is called the Far Shooter and the Pythian. He has no separate Roman name. His attributes in iconography are the cithara, the lyre, the bow, the fawn, and the tripod. In art Apollo is at most times depicted as a handsome young man, clean shaven and carrying either a lyre, or his bow and arrows. There are many sculptures of Apollo and one of the most famous is the central figure from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, at Olympia, showing Apollo declaring victory in favor of the Lapiths in their struggle against the centaurs.
And, for once, I became Apollo.
me and finella.
from left: sarah, debbie, meWell, I may not really look like Apollo in these photos.
And in most photos and statues of Apollo, he's always naked.I can't go that far.^^In commemoration of General Santos City SPED Integrated School's 10th anniversary, I was asked to protray the god Apollo, in a fashion show (Odyssey style), in replacement of Irglen because he's still in Cebu. At first I was hesitant to say YES, because I wouldn't want to go around half-naked (that was what I first thought I was going to do) and do a fashion show in front of hundreds of people inside Lagao Gym.
Well, in the end, I found myself inside the dressing room, stripping off my shirt and shorts and putting on my costume, which was made out of my mum's bedsheet.
Talk about my fashion sense.
Worse, they smeared my hair and my body with gold-coloured dust mixed with gel. A gel? Teacher Marivi said they were on a tight budget and purchasing gallons of body paint would imperil the school funds. Hahaha.
Anyway, it's not WHAT you wear.
It's HOW you wear it.
I had fun. :D
Thanks to Teacher Marivi for asking me to join the runway.
In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo is the ideal of the kuoros (a beardless youth), the god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery, and also a bringer of deadly plagues. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and also has a twin sister, the chaste hunter Artemis, who took the place of Selene in some myths as the goddess of the moon.
