What is Apollo the god of?
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music, light and prophecy
Apollo unites the arts and order: music and poetry, light, healing and the gift of prophecy.
💡 Did you know? As god of healing he was also the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine.
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Which instrument is Apollo's attribute?
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the lyre
Apollo plays the lyre, said to have been given to him by the young Hermes on the day of his birth.
💡 Did you know? Apollo had the satyr Marsyas, who challenged him to a music contest and lost, cruelly flayed.
Where was Apollo's famous oracle?
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at Delphi
At Delphi the priestess Pythia proclaimed enigmatic prophecies in Apollo's name.
💡 Did you know? Above the oracle stood the maxim „Know thyself“: still a philosophical guiding phrase.
Which monster did Apollo slay at Delphi?
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the serpent Python
Apollo killed the giant serpent Python and thus took over the oracle at Delphi.
💡 Did you know? In memory of the victory the Pythian Games were held at Delphi.
Who is Apollo's twin sister?
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Artemis
Apollo and Artemis are twins, children of Zeus and the Titaness Leto.
💡 Did you know? Interpreted as siblings of sun and moon, the two archers complement each other as day and night.
Into which plant did Apollo's beloved Daphne transform?
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into a laurel tree
To escape Apollo, the nymph Daphne had herself turned into a laurel tree.
💡 Did you know? Ever since, the laurel is sacred to Apollo: victors and poets were honoured with laurel wreaths.
With which heavenly body was Apollo identified?
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with the sun
Later Apollo merged with the sun god Helios into an all-embracing god of light.
💡 Did you know? As „Phoebus Apollo“ (the shining one) he drives the sun chariot across the sky.
What is Apollo called by the Romans?
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Apollo
Unusually, the Romans took the name over almost unchanged: Apollon became Apollo.
💡 Did you know? The US Moon-landing programme „Apollo,“ which took the first humans to the Moon in 1969, was named after him.
Whose choir did Apollo lead as “Musagetes”?
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that of the Muses
The epithet means leader of the Muses.
💡 Did you know? The nine Muses are daughters of Memory: Mnemosyne.
What did wrathful Apollo send with his arrows?
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plague
Thus begins the Iliad: pestilence in the Greek camp.
💡 Did you know? God of healing and of plague at once: both are Apollo.
Who was Apollo's healer son?
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Asclepius
Raised by the wise centaur Chiron.
💡 Did you know? His serpent staff is still the physicians' symbol.
Whom did Apollo defeat in a musical contest?
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Marsyas
He had the flute-player flayed for his presumption.
💡 Did you know? A cruel warning image against hubris in art.
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