Page:Myth, Ritual, and Religion (Volume 2).djvu/214

200 connection between Apollo and the wolf. In Athens there was the Lyceum of Apollo Lukios, Wolf-Apollo, which tradition connected with the primeval strife wherein Ægeus (goat-man) defeated Lukios (wolf-man). The Lukian Apollo was the deity of the defeated side, as Athene of the ægis (goat-skin) was the deity of the victors. The Argives had an Apollo of the same kind, and the wolf was stamped on their coins. According to Pausanias, when Danaus came seeking the kingship of Argos, the people hesitated between him and Gelanor. While they were in doubt, a wolf attacked a bull, and the Argives determined that the bull should stand for Gelanor, the wolf for Danaus. The wolf won; Danaus was made king, and in gratitude raised an altar to Apollo Lukios, Wolf-Apollo. That is (as friends of the totemic system would argue), a man of the wolf-stock dedicated a shrine to the wolf-god. In Delphi the presence of a bronze image of a wolf was explained by the story that a wolf once revealed the place where stolen temple treasures were concealed. The god's beast looked after the god's interest. In many myths the children of Apollo by mortal girls were exposed, but fostered by wolves. In direct contradiction with Pausanias, but in accordance with a common rule of mythical interpretation, Sophocles calls Apollo "the wolf-slayer." It has very frequently happened that when animals were found closely connected with a