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19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...
Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [55] [56] [57] Apollo Maponus. A god known from inscriptions in Britain. This may be a local fusion of Apollo and Maponus. Apollo Moritasgus ("masses of sea water"). [clarification needed] An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as the god of healing and, possibly, of ...
On the temple's doors, a scene depicting the killing of the children of Niobe by Apollo and Diana was rendered in ivory, [98] while the other door depicted the defeat of the Celtic attack on the Oracle of Delphi, of which Apollo was the patron god, in 281 BCE. [7]
In doing so, Apollo took the form of a dolphin, boarded the ship, and the sailors were awed into fearful submission to the deity. [55] A divine wind guided the ship across the sea and to Crissa, where Apollo revealed himself to the sailors, commanded them to worship him, and guided them to Delphi where he promptly put them in charge of the ...
The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius is to the far left.. The Temple of Apollo, also known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is a Roman temple built in 120 BC and dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii, southern Italy. [1]
Apollo, god of medicine, music, poetry, song and dance; Athena, goddess of wisdom and smart war; Dionysus, god of wine; Hephaestus, god of forge and sculpture; Poseidon, god of the sea, one of the big three; Zeus, god of the sky and lightning, one of the big three; Hera, goddess of marriage, family, women, and childbirth, queen of the gods ...
Literary sources often identify him with Apollo Pythios ("Pythian Apollo"), who was worshipped in Athens at the Pythion. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 20 ] Athenian children who were admitted to a phratry (cult association) were brought into a shrine of Apollo Patroos as part of a ceremony called the Meion - it is probable that this occurred in separate ...
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 .