Thus, after Asclepius, the demigod son of Apollo was born, he was raised by Chiron. The centaur taught the demigod in medicine and would drive him to become the greatest of healers. Asclepius is said to have been Apollo's favorite demigod child.
Asclepius: son of Apollo and Coronis, who achieved divine status after death. He became such a great healer, that he could bring back the dead. Zeus killed him for this, but raised him from the dead as the god of healing and medicine.
Animals sacred to Apollo include roe deer, swans, cicadas, hawks, ravens, crows, foxes, mice, and snakes.
Apollo is the Greek god of music, poetry, healing, and medicine. He is the son of Olympian god Zeus and Titan goddess Leto. He had a twin sister Artemis who he often accompanies in his myths.
He was also often depicted with one or both of his two main attributes: a bow and a lyre. The bow symbolized distance, death, terror, and awe, while the lyre more gently proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus through music, poetry, and dance.
Apollo's most famous love interest was Daphne, a nymph who had once vowed to Artemis to remain eternally innocent.
In Greek mythology, the raven, originally white, was the messenger of Apollo. In the legends, the raven delivered the message that Coronis, Apollo's lover, had been unfaithful. Apollo was so furious he burnt the messenger raven and that is why they are now black (Hamilton, p280).
In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a mythical bird associated with the Egyptian sun god Ra and the Greek god Phoibos Apollo.
Hades. Unknown to Apollo for some time, Hades is Apollo's uncle from Zeus. Hades and Apollo have a mutual disdain for each other.
Apollo falls in love with Daphne, advancing on her so aggressively to the point where she is forced to plead to her father for help. The father, for some reason, turns her into a laurel bush. The fatal flaw, here, at least for Apollo, is that he was not able to control his love.
In some versions, Apollo and Artemis spared a single son and daughter each, for they prayed to Leto for help; thus Niobe had as many children as Leto did, but no more.
Muses, the nine goddesses of arts, poetry, and song were all his lovers.
Apollo and Dionysus were brothers (sons of Zeus), each was Divine, and curiously each was a musician- Apollo the Lyre and Dionysus the Flute. Similarly, Nietzsche sees the Dionysian consciousness as crucial to artistic creation.
She loved him so much that she would have given up her virginity to be with him, but there were a few problems. Apollo didn't want his sister to be with the hunter, he fell in love with one of her followers while was in love with Artemis and Orion was killing too many animals. After his death, Artemis was heartbroken.
Definitely! I find relationship between Apollo and Hecate to one of the most interesting things I've come across. In short, Apollo and Hecate are counterparts. This is indicated in their names, their functions and also in the way They are related through their parents.
Although his sacred animals were the wolf, the raven and the dolphin, Apollo was also known as the god of cowherds and kept (bright red) sacred cows, the finest cattle in the world.
Horus was later identified by the Greeks with Apollo, and the town of Idfū was called Apollinopolis (“Apollo's Town”) during the Greco-Roman period.
APOLLO, CORONIS, AND ASCLEPIUS
Unfortunately, Apollo's bird, the raven, saw Coronis in the arms of another lover and told the god, who in a quick and violent rage shot her with one of his arrows.
The idea that citrine brought its owner success especially in times of war came not only from the Romans who associated the stone with the God Apollo, but dates even further back to when the ancient Egyptians first discovered the crystal and believed that it inherited its yellowish hue from the sun.
Delphi was an ancient religious sanctuary dedicated to the Greek god Apollo. Developed in the 8th century B.C., the sanctuary was home to the Oracle of Delphi and the priestess Pythia, who was famed throughout the ancient world for divining the future and was consulted before all major undertakings.
Apollo angered his father Zeus and ended up being sent to Earth and is in the body of a 16 year-old boy named Lester Papadopolous. Zeus punishes Apollo for the role that he played in the battle between the gods in Gaea. Apollo is of course upset about this and is wondering how soon he can get back to god status.
According to Aeschylus, Cassandra promised Apollo favors, but, after receiving the gift, went back on her word and refused Apollo. Since the enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, he added a curse that nobody would believe Cassandra's prophecies.