Apollo

The God of Music, Prophecy, and Other Things.

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Title

He was the god of:

● Music● Prophecy● Medicine● Light● Plague● Religious Healing● Archery● Colonization

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Name

Greek: Απολλων (Apollôn)

Roman: Apollo (Apollo)

Family Tree● Son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leto (Latona)

● Twin Brother of Artemis (Diana)

● Had 33 Offspring (or more depending on your sources)

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Depictions● A young man with a lyre

● Sometimes with a laurel crown

● Bow and arrow

● Sometimes sitting on a tripod

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http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z5.3.html

http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K5.9.html

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Stories

● Apollo and Daphne

● Niobe

● Slaying of Python

Bibliography● Leadbetter, Ron. (1997, March 3). Apollo.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html

● J. Atsma, Aaron. (2001). Apollon. http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Apollon.html