Apollo+Thesis

Good evening to all and i hope your week is going well. Today i began drafting my final paper ( Apollo ) i find as the more i dig into my reserch the more curious i get. It is alway hard to start but i am gladd i chose a topic that i enjoy reading about Apollo the sun god. My original thesis statement is not strong enough so i decided to make some changes that would provocate a good arguement.
 * ( Apollo the sun God and the deliver of good health and wisdom to mankind )**

Now breaking this thesis down word by word i can come up with more of arguement and express my opinon of my subject. The God of wisdom how does that apply and what power or how did the Greek faith of mystery come to be. Why was Apollo so revered ? Was it because of the sun so bright so much power of light over darkness that set him apart from the other God's at the time. The deliver of good health can be taken even further with out sun all thing would die without the rays of sun light nothing would grow. Mankind would parrish. The warmth of the sun kept all from frezing and was the fire that was deep inside of mankind to survive in a world that had many perils to overcome, Apollo wisdom that was flowing thru sun light to mans soul the sun light gave hope to hearts and soul of the Greeks. Mankind became drawn to the sun the light. The golden color of the sun became the symbol of rebirth. Every new day the sun would rise in the east and set in the west this was the way of nature and space. The Sun is always with us as long as we belive mankind grew in his wisdom and respect and so did Apollo.

Now you are cooking, William! This is getting close to a sharp thesis statement. "How does Apollo, the god of wisdom and sunshine, come to inhabit the same Greek imagination that was attracted to the Mysteries and their love of darkness?" This seems to be your question. If it is, you will next have to think of different ways of arguing the statement. You could then make it more provocative by developing it further. For example: The sunny Mediterranean Greeks with their love of scientific reasoning went through a period of mid-life crisis when they took up Mystery Cults and embraced Dionysos. Or: The rational Greek love of sunlight and worship of Apollo was an early phase of their culture and became more mature after Alexander spread Greek culture througout the world - a world which had already developed dark Mystery worship and cults of chaos. Keep refining and re-phrasing your thesis statements until you get something provocative that you can also argue with facts, timelines, and solid quotations from our texts.

William you might also want to look at the Caduceus, since it is closely related. From my findings it all comes from an older mystery religion, and even then your question might not be answered. This might sound totally stupid but I found Wikipedia very helpful in solving part of the mystery... which break downs in which directions to look for research. Leonor