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Apollo's Tragic Hero

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Myth has it that once Apollo, the god of light and poetry, found Eros, who is known as Cupid in modern day, working with his arrows and bows. Eros shoots people with his arrows and makes them fall in love. Apollo had just won a Python, an earth-dragon that was living in Delphi. Apollo got so arrogant because of his victory, so he told Eros to that he needs to leave war-like weapons to gods like him.

Eros became furious, so he decided to revenge. Eros climbed on a rock of Mt Parnassus and shoots two arrows, one was sharp and gold-tipped and the other was blunt and lead-tipped. the sharp one landed on Apollo's heart, which inflamed his love for Daphne, a gorgeous nymph, daughter of Peneus, the river god. The blunt arrow struck Daphne creating
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