Apollo

- Yes, date unknown

• Name	Apollo
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo «/b»In «u»Greek «/u» and «u»Roman mythology «/u», «b»Apollo«/b» (in «u»Greek «/u», -«i»Apóll«/i» or -«i»Apell«/i»), is one of the most important and many-sided of the «u»Olympian deities «/u». The ideal of the «u»«i»kouros «/u»«/i» (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; «u»archery «/u»; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of «u»Zeus «/u» and «u»Leto «/u», and has a «u»twin «/u» sister, the chaste huntress «u»Artemis «/u». Apollo is known in Greek-influenced «u»Etruscan mythology «/u» as «i»Apulu«/i». Apollo was worshipped in both «u»ancient Greek «/u» and «u»Roman religion «/u», as well as in the modern «u»Greco «/u»-«u»Roman «/u» «u»Neopaganism «/u». As the patron of «u»Delphi «/u» («i»Pythian Apollo«/i»), Apollo was an «u»oracular «/u» god \emdash the prophetic deity of the «u»Delphic Oracle «/u». Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son «u»Asclepius «/u». Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly «u»plague «/u» as well as one who had the ability to cure. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over «u»colonists «/u», and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the «u»Muses «/u» («i»Apollon Musagetes«/i») and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and «u»poetry «/u». «u»Hermes «/u» created the «u»lyre «/u» for him, and the instrument became a common «u»attribute «/u» of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called «u»paeans «/u». In Hellenistic times, especially during the third century BCE, as «i»Apollo Helios«/i» he became identified among Greeks with «u»Helios «/u», «u»god of the sun «/u», and his sister Artemis similarly equated with «u»Selene «/u», «u»goddess of the moon «/u». In Latin texts, however, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with «u»Sol «/u» among the «u»Augustan poets «/u» of the first century, not even in the conjurations of «u»Aeneas «/u» and «u»Latinus «/u» in «u»«i»Aeneid «/u»«/i» XII (161\endash 215). Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the third century CE.
  Person ID	I61446	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	1 May 2015

  
  

  Mother	Leto,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F551617652	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Pronoe,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Melaneus,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013
  Family ID	F551617651	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Apollo 2nd century AD Roman statue of Apollo depicting the god's attributes—the lyre and the snake Python
  		Apollo Apollo (the "Adonis" of Centocelle), Roman after a Greek original (Ashmolean Museum) Roman Statue of Apollo
  		Apollo Apollo and Hyacinthus Jacopo Caraglio; 16th c. Italian engraving
  		peneus, Apollo, Daphne Peneus averts his gaze as Apollo, pierced by Cupid's arrow of desire, pursues Daphne, transforming into the laurel (Apollo and Daphne, 1625, by Poussin)