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20.3 cm (8.0 in) Location. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Accession. 03.997. The Mantiklos "Apollo" is an ancient Greek sculpture from the early Archaic period. The sculpture dates to about 700-675 B.C from Thebes and measures 20.3 cm tall. It is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [1]
Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sunand light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeusand Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (/ ˈɑːrtɪmɪs /; Greek: Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. [ 1 ][ 2 ] In later times, she was identified with Selene, the personification of the Moon. [ 3 ]
Apollo's bow, a bow that was crafted of sun rays. Artemis 's bow , a golden bow wielded by Artemis that was crafted of moonlight and silver wood or made of gold. Eros 's bow , a bow wielded by Eros that could cause one to love or hate the person they first saw after being struck.
The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) [1] is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity.. The work has been dated to mid-way through the 2nd century A.D. and is considered to be a Roman copy of an original bronze statue created between 330 and 320 B.C. by the Greek sculptor Leochares. [2]
She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, and absorbed much of Artemis' mythology early in Roman history, including a birth on the island of Delos to parents Jupiter and Latona, and a twin brother, Apollo, [ 2 ] though she had an independent origin in Italy. Diana is considered a virgin goddess and protector of childbirth.
Daphne. Daphne (/ ˈdæfni /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel '), [1] a figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in ...
Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: / ˌ f ɪ l ə k ˈ t iː t iː z /, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-[1]), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa [2] or Methone. [3]