Apollo

= **Apollo** =



= __**Information**__ = __**GENERAL:**__ Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts and more.

Appearance: Strong, handsome, young, curly golden hair. Strengths**:** Creative, handsome, supportive of all the arts of civilization. Apollo was very much involved in human affairs.

__**HEALING**__ Apollo was known to either give healing to people in need, or bring ill-health and a deadly plague. When anybody died, it was the myth that that person had been struck by Apollo's arrow.

__**MUSIC/ POETRY**__ As a god of music, Apollo is often depicted playing the lyre. Apollo was given the lyre by Hermes in a compensation for cattle theft. There has been some controversy about whether Apollo created the lyre. Apollo won several music contests by playing the lyre. Some people say that Apollo invented the Lute.

__**STORY**__ Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War. There, Apollo brought about the demise of the mighty Achilles (the best fighter in the Trojan War) This was done by Apollo helping another god named Paris by guiding the arrow of his bow into Achilles' heal.

__**FAMILY**__ Parents: Zeus and Leto Twin sister was Artemis. Children: Orpheus (with Calliope) and Asklepios

= __**Famous Artwork of Apollo**__ =

Name: "Apollo and Daphne" Year: 1845 Artist: Theodore Chasseriau

Name: "Apollo and Aurora" Year: 1671 Artist: Dutch artist Gerard de Lairesse.

__ **Symbols of Apollo** __


 * Symbol or Attribute of Apollo:** The Sun itself, the lyre (a type of musical instrument), the bow, and the chariot he drives across the sky daily



A coin depicting Apollo Greek God of the Sun.

Alyssa Margolis Honors english Period 5