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Apollo was the son of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek pantheon, and Leto, a descendant of the Titans. In myth, he and his twin sister Artemis were born on the island of Delos, the only place on earth that would give Leto shelter when Hera , Zeus’ jealous wife, sought to prevent her from giving birth.
Apollo quickly mastered the instrument and soon was celebrated as the greatest of all musicians. Some time later, the rustic god Pan compared his music to Apollo’s. The shining god became incensed at the comparison and challenged Pan to a contest. While the judges declared Apollo to be the winner, King Midas of Phrygia dissented. As ...
Forthwith Phoebus Apollo spoke out among the deathless goddesses: “The lyre and the curved bow shall ever be dear to me, and I will declare to men the unfailing will of Zeus.” (133–139) So said Phoebus, the long-haired god who shoots afar and began to walk upon the wide-pathed earth; and all goddesses were amazed at him.
But Hyacinthus was killed prematurely when Apollo accidentally struck him with a discus; in his grief, Apollo turned the blood that flowed from the boy’s body into the hyacinth flower. Though Hyacinthus is best known from the myth in which he was accidentally killed by Apollo, he probably existed as a local Laconian god or hero long before ...
Asclepius’ father was Apollo, the Olympian god associated with healing, prophecy, and the arts. His mother, however, was less certain. According to the best-known version, Asclepius’ mother was a mortal woman from Thessaly named Coronis. But in other versions, she was a Messenian woman named Arsinoe.
Ovid, whose colorful account of Daphne and Apollo in the Metamorphoses would immortalize the myth, claimed that Apollo’s unrequited love was a punishment from Eros, the god of love: Apollo had mocked the boyish Eros and the bow he used in his role as god of love, so Eros decided to teach him a lesson. He picked out two special arrows from his ...
In many traditions, he served as the original keeper of the oracle at Delphi. When the god Apollo was still young—possibly just a baby—he chased Python down and slew him with his bow and arrows. Afterwards, Apollo established the oracle at Delphi on the site, destined to become one of the most important oracles of antiquity.
Zeus was the supreme god of the Greeks, a mighty deity who meted out justice from atop Mount Olympus. Hailed as the father of both mortals and immortals, Zeus was the god of the sky and weather, but was also connected with law and order, the city, and the household.
Marsyas and Apollo prepared for the contest. They chose judges (depending on the tradition, the contest was judged by either the Muses, the Phrygian king Midas, the mountain god Tmolus, the people of the nearby city of Nysa, or, as sometimes in art, by Athena). Though both Marsyas and Apollo played beautifully, Apollo was declared the winner.
Artemis also fended off numerous other men who threatened her chastity, including the river god Alpheus, the second-generation Titan Buphagus, and the young Sipriotes. Artemis in Homer. Like her brother Apollo, Homer’s Artemis was an ally of the Trojans and an enemy of the Greeks during the Trojan War.