Would this be too "inapproprite" for a school project?

Question

ok, im in 7th grade and im doing a report on apollo and artimis, the greek twins in mythology. it has to be a detailed report and one important story is that apollo killed a snake/dragon/serpent that tried to rape his mother...but im not sure if ill get in troouble for saying that...any suggestions?

Answer 1

Tell them the Python "attacked" their mother, you don't have to imply the sexual nature of the attack, leave that out it's inapropriate for school.

Answer 2

I don't think you have to put every last detail in about the story. Basically, the Python was a big nasty monster and he killed it and set up his temple above where the monster popped up its head or something. The "Pythia" was an oracle who set up shop above the crack in the earth where the Python was killed.

I don't even remember that part of the story. Not saying it isn't true--people have sex with animals all the time in Greek myths, and sometimes the animals rape people or at least try to. The Python was an especially nasty, gigantic monster--didn't it surround the earth's circumference? I thought he had to kill the Python so that the fumes of the rotting body would inspire his Pythia or something like that...maybe I have the story a little mangled.

But if it was harrassing his mother...that poor woman had trouble enough and it would be fine to say that he killed the Python to protect her.

Go ahead and say what you find. Greek myths aren't prim and proper and your teacher has to know that--if you read just a few lines into them, all kinds of weird, violent things start happening and you wouldn't be punished for reporting on what everybody knows is there.

The usual idea behind killing the Python is that the giant snake represented the old order--the old gods of the area. For example, Hera was a real bad-a ss goddess of practically everything, but when the Achaeans moved into the Greek area, they took their masculine god Zeus and married Hera to him and turned her into a b!tchy shrew with no power of her own. The Python was the supreme representation of secret earth power, a power usually seen as the divine feminine. So instead of living in harmony with the snake goddess, the Greeks made the Python into a total a sshole and made Apollo a hero for killing her off (I think the Python was a she.)

It's all about the masculine gods killing off the old feminine matriarchy. The female gods had a lot more power before Zeus and his cronies came along! Artemis was a powerful fertility goddess, but when the Greek pantheon was set up, she was demoted to a perpetual virgin huntress stripped of her earlier power of sex. Sex was seen as dirty, hostile to "feminine virtue", almost unnatural, instead of a normal part of life to create new life. So people started getting raped by animals and sex became marginalized and goddesses became subservient to the new powerful gods.

So sexist! Don't get me started!

BTW, I think Apollo is creepy and a real twit. Make sure you mention that women would rather turn into trees or stuff than have sex with him (see Daphne, also look up poor Cassandra in the Trojan War stories.) Artemis is way cooler.

Answer 3

There is nothing inappropriate about a report on mythology. If your teacher is so prudish that you have to ask this question, I have doubts your teacher is qualified. Mythology has long been a staple in all grades of school curriculum. Archeology students often take Mythology as a minor so as to better understand the lives and history of those who they unearth.

And if the fact that Apollo killed the attempted rapist, remember this little fact. In most states, it is LEGAL to use deadly force to stop a rape from occurring. That is a fact.

Answer 4

You mean about Python after it attacked Leto?
Lady, that's a lot more proper than what I did when I was a couple years younger than yourself, when I made reports about all the ladies Zeus had children with, or how Apollo turned Daphne into a laurel tree because she would not do it with him. Of course, that was France and we may be less uptight about mythological subjects than in America.

Answer 5

I think that it is fine as long as you write the report in a clean fashion. The near rape of Leto is an important story in Apollo's mythology. Good luck.

Answer 6

apollo and artemis were children of zeus and leto.
thay both had bows,but artemis was the godess of haunting,and apollo was god of the light.
the monster apollo killed was python.apollo wanted to find a place to build his temple,and after a while he arrived to mount parnas.and in the mountain was a deep mudly gorge,were was living a big snake with 100 heads,that was named python.the serpent was born from some green mud,left there from the flood. hera hated apollo cuz he was son of zeus with other goddess,so she ordered to python to kill apollo when he'll pass over there.but when the snake attacked him,apollo shot an arrow in python and wounded it.the serpent died.after that,apollo named that place delphi,and decided to that his temple(and oracle)will be build there.
i never heard about this story that python wanted to rape leto.....the only one who raped leto was zeus....

hope this helped:)

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Well, you could always say, "tried to do the nasty with his mother", or maybe, "tried to have an inappropriate relationship with his mother" or "tried to practice bestiality with his mother", or "tried to get it on with his mama", or something like that.

If you got in trouble for saying tried to rape his mother, that would be so stupid because it's mythology, not like you are making this stuff up. If the teacher is that much of a prude, try one of the euphemisms I listed above.

Answer 9

i did a report on eva peron when i was in 7th grade... and she was a prostitute. i included that information because it was fact and part of her life. if you are being taught mythology in school, then it should be fine for you to mention it in the report. if you have that much of a question with it, i agree with the other people here who said to ask your teacher whether it is appropritate or if there is another way he or should would want you to word it.

Answer 10

I just got finish with doing a report on artemis. I talked about the sexual part of her life, and it helped me grade. My teacher said that it was part of how the Greeks lived and they weren't ashamed of talking about sex or being naked or having affairs or anything like that. If you don't tell the truth, you aren't telling their story.