... I ask / Is but to enjoy her love'" Book 10 -- Orpheus and Eurydice, line 31-9. Pluto, ruler of the Underworld, agreed to let Eurydice go back to the living as long as Orpheus didn't turn back to look at her until they were completely out of Hades. When the light of the world was beginning to show, Orpheus turned back and looked at his bride and she slipped away ... , and so when he and Atalanta were at an ancient shrine, she put him under the inescapable pull of desire, and he and Atalanta defiled the holy place. For this disregard, the gods of the shrine changed them both into savage li...

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... of the longer Homeric Hymns, "Hymn to Apollo. " The tale of Apollo's birth tells the story of his mother, Leto, a mistress of Zeus, who gave birth to both Apollo and his twin sister, Artemis: "Rejoice, blessed Leto, for you bare glorious children, the lord Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows. " Upon Hera's awareness of Leto's actions, she persecutes Leto and establishes that no land that sees the light of ... day should receive her children: "So far roamed Leto in travail with the god who shoots afar, to see if any land would be willing to ... no one would believe. In the future, C...

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