Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia (Λυκία) and who was identified with the wolf (λύκος). [ 31 ] Phanaeus ( / f ə ˈ n iː ə s / fə- NEE -əs ; Φαναῖος , Phanaios ), literally "giving or bringing light"
In Homer, Paeon [2] was the Greek physician of the gods. In Iliad V he heals the wounded Ares and Hades with his herbal lore.In time Paeon (or Paean) became an epithet ("byname") of Apollo as a god capable of bringing disease and propitiated as a god of healing.
names containing El, a word meaning might, power and (a) god in general, and hence in Judaism, God and among the Canaanites the name of the god who was the father of Baal. names containing Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh. names referring to Levantine deities (especially the storm god, Hadad) by the epithet Baal, meaning lord.
The name Pythia is derived from "pythia hiereia" (Greek: πυθία ἱέρεια), meaning ' priestess of the Pythian Apollo '; it is related to Pythios (Πύθιος), an epithet of Apollo, itself deriving from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi. [13]
Apollyon (top) battling Christian in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.. The Hebrew term Abaddon (Hebrew: אֲבַדּוֹן ’Ăḇaddōn, meaning "destruction", "doom") and its Greek equivalent Apollyon (Koinē Greek: Ἀπολλύων, Apollúōn meaning "Destroyer") appear in the Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss.
Asclepius was the son of Apollo and, according to the earliest accounts, a mortal woman named Koronis (Coronis), who was a princess of Tricca in Thessaly. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] When she displayed infidelity by sleeping with a mortal named Ischys , Apollo found out with his prophetic powers and killed Ischys.
Apollon may refer to: . Apollo, ancient Greek god of light, healing and poetry; Apollon (Formula One), Formula One constructor Apollon Kalamarias, Greek football club; Apollon Smyrnis F.C., a Greek football club from Athens
The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, or vixen. [1] In the past, the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman.