For this action, Apollo was banished from heaven and endured much suffering on earth, as he was turned into a shepherd for Admetus, king of Thessaly. ... Once Apollo was born, Detos and Ortygia, once floating and sinking islands became permanently anchored in place, and soon became some of the richest and most celebrated religious shrines in Greek civilization. ... In the future, Cassandra became filled with visions of importance yet no one saw truth in her predictions, specifically the Chorus in "Agamemnon ", who did not believe her cautionary words about the imminent death of her and King Ag...

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Which tells us that Cronus (the father of Zeus, Iasion, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, hades, Poseidon and Amphitrite) was told by Gaea that one of his offspring would over throw him he would swallow every son and daughter to ensure they would never have the chance, however when it came time for his youngest son (Zeus) to be born his mother went to a cave and gave birth to Zeus there he would grow with help from her parent they raised Zeus in the cave but once Zeus had grown he learned of his father and went to his and defeated him because Zeus was so strong, Zeus then made his father vomit all his ch...

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Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. ... Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. ... Virgil also uses the future tense, for prophecy and prediction. ... In the second half of th...

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