Apollo

Apollo in Wikipedia

In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων- Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων-Apellōn), is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; medicine, healing, and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; a...

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Apollo in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Ἀπόλλων). 1. one of the great divinities of the Greeks, was, according to Homer (Hom. Il. 1.21, 36), the son of Zeus and Leto. Hesiod( Hes. Th. 918) states the same, and adds, that Apollo's sister was Artemis. Neither of the two poets suggests anything in regard to the birth-place of the god, unless we take Λυκηγενὴς (Il. 4.101) in the sense ...

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