place
Delos
also: Δῆλος
A small, barren Aegean island, personified and given speech in Hymn 3: fearing Apollo will despise and abandon her for her poverty, she makes Leto swear he will build his first temple there before any other; Delos becomes his most cherished shrine and the site of the Ionians' great festival.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.1 Delos
A small, barren Aegean island, personified and given speech in Hymn 3: fearing Apollo will despise and abandon her for her poverty, she makes Leto swear he will build his first temple there before any other; Delos becomes his most cherished shrine and the site of the Ionians' great festival.
- The Odyssey §6.145 Delos
Apollo's island, where Odysseus once saw a young palm shoot springing up beside the altar. He offers that memory of wonder to Nausicaa as the only thing he can compare to the sight of her.