Apollo's bow
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Apollo's gift · bow · horn-tipped bow · thy bow
in the texts
Alcestis
The bow Apollo carries during his confrontation with Death, cited by Death as evidence of Apollo's readiness to use force on Admetus's behalf.
Death:
Apollo:
Orestes
The bow Apollo gave Orestes to ward off the Furies during his fits of madness.
Give me my horn-tipped bow, Apollo’s gift, with which he told me to ward off the goddesses, if ever they sought to scare me with wild transports of madness.
A mortal hand will wound one of them, unless she departs from my sight. Don’t you hear me? Don’t you see the feathered arrows springing out from my far-shooting bow? What!