2023年4月11日 · Apollo was a powerful Greek god and one of the Twelve Olympians. He served as the divine patron of prophecy, healing, art, and culture, as well as the embodiment of masculine beauty. Apollo belonged to the second generation of Olympians, along with his twin sister Artemis, goddess of the wild and hunting.

2023年3月8日 · Alternatively, the name “Apollo” may have come from the words apeilḗ, a noun meaning “promise, boast or threat,” and apeiléō, the verb form meaning “to make a promise, boast, or threat.” Such an etymology would render “Apollo,” in the words of one scholar, as “the god of authoritative speech, the one who presides over all ...

2023年3月9日 · These included Apollo (as Apollo Delphinios), Asclepius, Hermes, Pan, and Zeus (as Zeus Meilichios and Zeus Panamaros). Other Worship: Magic Papyri, Curse Tablets, and the Chaldean Oracles Given her associations with magic, it is no surprise that Hecate was often invoked on the fringes of religious worship that dealt in magic, spells, and curses.

2023年4月13日 · Artemis, like her twin brother Apollo, was born from the union of the supreme god Zeus and the goddess Leto. She was most likely born on the island of Delos (though some sources placed her birth on a different island nearby). Delos later became the site of one of Apollo’s most important sanctuaries.

I am the son of Zeus; Apollo is my name: but you I brought here over the wide gulf of the sea, meaning you no hurt; nay, here you shall keep my rich temple that is greatly honoured among men, and you shall know the plans of the deathless gods, and by their will you shall be honoured continually for all time. And now come, make haste and do as I ...

2023年7月31日 · One day, a priest of Apollo named Chryses came to the Greek camp. He wished to ransom his daughter, who had been taken captive by the Greeks and had become Agamemnon’s slave. When Agamemnon refused to let the girl go, Chryses begged Apollo to avenge him. Apollo, answering Chryses’ prayer, sent a plague to the Greek army.

2023年3月24日 · The ancient Greeks derived the name “Pytho,” another name for Delphi, from the verb πύθομαι (pýthomai), meaning “to rot, decay”; they believed that the site got its name from the rotting corpse of Python after it was slain by Apollo. According to a kind of circular logic, they presumably derived the serpent’s name from the ...

2023年3月8日 · 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 ...

2023年7月10日 · Others have suggested a connection with the Greek words aiglē and aglaos, meaning “glorious” (often found in epithets of Asclepius’ father, Apollo). Finally, some have pointed out that Asclepius’ name contains elements typical of Pre-Greek names ( a/ai followed by - glap - or - sklap -/ schklap/b -) and may thus have been Pre-Greek in ...

2023年3月10日 · Phoebe’s precise attributes remain unclear, but her name (“the bright one”) suggests some association with light. She was also connected with oracles, both through her grandson Apollo as well as in her own right. Bell krater showing Leto with her children Artemis and Apollo while offering libations to an altar (ca. 450 BCE).