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Apollo (Attic,
Ionic, and
Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (
GEN Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn;
Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn;
Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun;
Latin: Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the
Olympian deities in classical
Greek and
Roman religion and Greek and
Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of
Zeus and
Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress
Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced
Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
As the patron of
Delphi (
Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the
Delphic Oracle.
Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (
Apollon Musegetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry.
Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo.
Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.
In
Hellenistic times, especially during the
3rd century BCE, as Apollo
Helios he became identified among
Greeks with Helios,
Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with
Selene, Titan goddess of the moon. In Latin texts, on the other hand,
Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the
Augustan poets of the
1st century, not even in the conjurations of
Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid
XII (161–215). Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the
3rd century CE.
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