Apollo: A Music Drama (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Clytie, a vestal virgin, enters to perform her morning religious rites. She advances to a small altar and, in pan tomime, goes through ceremonies in worship of the gods on Olympus. In the midst of her devotions she is dis covered by pan, who is struck by her rare beauty, and, forgetting momentarily that he is half beast, addresses her, whereupon she screams with fright and flees. This incident brings home to pan the full realization of his awful plight, and in an impassioned song he supplicates the gods to restore his human form and runs up Mount Olympus as if to carry his appeal directly to the gods themselves.

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