Apollo 2 Essay, Research Paper

Apollo

Table of Contents

1. Title Page

2. Table of Content

3. Apollo Report

4. Apollo Report

5. Story of apollo

6. Temple of Apollo ( Didyma, Turkey )

7. Palazzo Corsini ( Florence, Italy )

8. Ruins at Delphi ( Delphi, Greece )

Son of : Zeus and Leto, Brother of Artemis.

Birth : on Delos. Delos nis a island in Greece, in the southern Aegean sea. It is the

smallest of the Cyclades group having an area of about 1 sq. mile. It is now uninhabited,

but in ancient times was famous as a shrine of Apollo and as a trading center of the early

Greeks and Romans.

God of : Prophecy, healing, music, agriculture, cattle, truth, light

First Love : Daphne

Lover of : Acacllis, Acantha, Arsinoe, Bolina, Clymene, Calliope, Celaeno, Chione,

Chrysorthe, Coronis, Cyrene, Daphne, Dryope, Evadne, Hecuba, Issa, Leucothoe,

Ocyrrhoe, Parthenope, Phthia, Procleia, Pasmathe, Rhoeo, Stilbe, Syllis, Thyia, and

Thyria.

Father of : Amphithemis, Miletus, Eriopis, Orpheus, Delphus, Philammon, Coronus,

Asclepius, Paeon, Autychus, Idom, Aristaeus, Amphissus, Iamus, Troilus, Phasis,

Lycomedes, Dorus, Laodocus, Polypoetes, Tenes, Linus, Anius, Centaurus, Lapithus,

Zeuxippus, Delphus, Cycnus, Phylius, Chariclo, Cinyras, Dryops, Idmon, Melaneus,

Thestor, and Trophonius.

Apollo had many epithets( A term used to characterize a person or thing) 1.

Acersecomes- meaning unshorn 2.Acesius- meaning healer. 3. Cynthius. 4.Delius. 5.

Loxias. 6.Lycius- meaning wolf god. 7.Moiragete- meaning guide of the Moirae. 8.

Musagetes- meaning patron of the Muses. Paean- meaning the healing god. 10. Phoebus-

meaning shining. 11. Smintheus- meaning mouse god.

Apollo had many things that he enjoyed. He was very athletic. Apollo was the first

winner of the Olympian Games. He was a master archer, and was a fast runner. Apollo s

scared tree was the lyre, his sacred birds were the raven and the swan. Apollo s sacred is

land was Delos.

Apollo was said to drive a golden chariot across the sky each day, representing

the sun. He is seen here with his horse-drawn chariot on a ceiling painting in the palazzo

Corsinl in Florence Italy. Because of his beauty, Apollo was painted and sculpted in

ancient art more frequently than any other deity. Many poems were also written about

Apollo.

The Loard of the unerring bow,

The god of life, poetry, and light,

The sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow

All radiant from his triumph in the fight.

The shaft has just been shot; the arrow bright

With an immortal s vengeance; in his eye

And nostril, beautiful disdain, and might

And majesty flash their full lightning s by,

Developing in that one glance the Deity.

The Story of Apollo an Daphne is retold in stories, songs, and poems, the fowling

is one of those poems.

Yet what he sung in his immortal strain,

Thought unsuccessful, was not sung in vain.

All but the nymph that should redress his wrong,

Attend his passion and approve his song

Like Phoebus thus, acquiring unsought praise,

He caught at love and filled his arms with bays

Apollo s story: The Python at Delphi

When Apollo was a young man he traveled to mount Parnassus. Apollo traveled

here because he wanted the oracle that was near a town called Delphi. The only problem

was that there was a giant python that was grading the oracle. The python was the son of

Gaea and Mother Earth. He was created by the slime left over on the earth after the great

flood, he lived in a cave near Delphi.

Many people did not think that Apollo could slay the python, because he was

using such a primitive weapon, a bow-arrow. Know one had ever used weapons that

were used to kill bore, deer. When the Python was sleeping Apollo shot it in the head

and killed it.

After Apollo killed the python he claimed the oracle in his name. soon after

killing the python he meet up with cupid. He told cupid that he should not play with such

manly weapons. Cupid got angry and said Your arrows may strike every thing else but

mine will strike you. So Cupid shot Apollo and a nymth named Daphne. They fell in

love and lived happly ever after.