444ff Hymnic style, double appellation with adjectives, followed by praise of attributes. 458-61 Reference to the birth of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis when their mother Leto, after long wandering, was allowed by the island of Delos to rest and give birth, under a palm tree. At the great festival of Athena, the Panathenaia, a major ritual was the presentation to the goddess's statue of a magnificent robe, woven and embroidered each year by privileged Athenian girls. The robe bore scenes of the gods' victory over the Giants in which Athena was prominent. Later Zeus's victory over the Titans was substituted to that over the Giants.
Writers often interchange the names.
It consists of two long speeches. The notion that fortune maybe different from Fate, and more powerful even than the gods. 496 Self-disfigurement was part of ritual grief. Once again the identification of a virgin's death and marriage. This ode is intensely pictorial and its arrangement striking.