* the original name of 1970s American R & B / disco group Apollo ( quintet )

The ideal of the kouros ( a beardless, athletic youth ), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

Apollo was worshipped as Actiacus ( ; Ἄκτιακός, Aktiakos, literally " Actian "), Delphinius ( ; Δελφίνιος, Delphinios, literally " Delphic "), and Pythius ( ; Πύθιος, Puthios, from Πυθώ, Pūthō, the area around Delphi ), after Actium ( Ἄκτιον ) and Delphi ( Δελφοί ) respectively, two of his principal places of worship.

As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor ( ; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ὰφίημι, " to let loose ") or Aphetorus ( ; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin ), Argyrotoxus ( ; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argurotoxos, literally " with silver bow "), Hecaërgus ( ; Ἑκάεργος, Hekaergos, literally " far-shooting "), and Hecebolus ( ; Ἑκηβόλος, Hekēbolos, literally " far-shooting ").

From his eastern-origin Apollo brought the art of inspection from " symbols and omina " ( σημεία και τέρατα: semeia kai terata ), and of the observation of the omens of the days.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

The magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.

Some common epithets of Apollo as a healer are " paion " ( παιών: touching ), " epikourios " ( επικουρώ: help ), " oulios " ( ουλή: cured wound ), and " loimios " ( λοiμός: plague ).

A female dragon named Delphyne ( δελφύς: womb ), who is obviously connected with Delphi and Apollo Delphinios, and a male serpent Typhon ( τύφειν: smoke ), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python.

* In Hierapolis Bambyce, Syria ( modern Manbij ), according to the treatise De Dea Syria, the sanctuary of the Syrian Goddess contained a robed and bearded image of Apollo.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

The myth explains the connection of Apollo with δάφνη ( daphnē ), the laurel whose leaves his priestess employed at Delphi.

Marsyas could not do this with his instrument ( the flute ), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.

Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves, dolphins, roe deer, swans, cicadas ( symbolizing music and song ), hawks, ravens, crows, snakes ( referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy ), mice and griffins, mythical eagle – lion hybrids of Eastern origin.

The band also released a new live album and DVD, recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in May 2010, and are recording further tracks for their next studio album, likely to be released early in 2011.

He is mentioned in the lyrics of the song " I May Be Wrong ( But I Think You're Wonderful )" by Harry Sullivan and Harry Ruskin, written in 1929, which became the theme song of the Apollo Theater in New York, and which was recorded by many artists including Doris Day in 1950.

His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae, where Herodotus reported that the flayed skin of Marsyas was still to be seen, and Ptolemy Hephaestion recorded a " festival of Apollo, where the skins of all those victims one has flayed are offered to the god.

Yet another Cycnus was a son of Apollo by Hyrie or Thyrie, daughter of Amphinomus ; the story concerning him is recorded by Antoninus Liberalis.

Anextiomarus is a Celtic epithet of the sun-god Apollo recorded in a Romano-British inscription from South Shields, England.

High-profile examples of programme losses include many episodes of Doctor Who, The Wednesday Play, most of the seminal comedy series Not Only But Also, all of the 1950s televised Francis Durbridge serials ( further, the first two serials were never recorded ), the vast majority of the BBC's Apollo 11 Moon landing studio coverage, all but one of the 39 episodes of The First Lady, and all 147 episodes of the soap opera United !.

The album was recorded at the Théâtre de l ' Apollo in Paris, with André Popp and Michel Legrand conducting.

One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to utilise this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle.

The special limited 3 CD-set recorded during the first show at Hammersmith Apollo was sold directly after the concerts.

In 1963, the group recorded two albums for Newtown, a Christmas album titled Sleigh Bells, Jingle Bells and Blue Bells, and a faux-live album ( compiled from their studio recordings with an added audience track ), Sweethearts of the Apollo, taking from a title giving to them after the group successfully performed at the Apollo Theater, however the group failed to match their live success with any following records and left Newtown for more established Cameo-Parkway Records, releasing the top 40 hit, " Down the Aisle ( The Wedding Song )".

" At Apollo he recorded with saxophone legends King Curtis and Lester Young behind him.

On October 26, 1962 Burke appeared on the bill at the Apollo Theatre that headlined James Brown, and was recorded and released as The Apollo Theatre Presents In Person The James Brown Show ( King 826 ) in May 1963.

Burke, Don Covay, and Wilson Pickett, performed at the Apollo Theater on October 21, 1964, which was recorded by Atlantic Records engineers, but neither of Burke's songs were released.

Spring 2008 saw the release of a live CD and DVD of the 2007 tour, OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More, recorded at the London Apollo Hammersmith, along with a 25th anniversary re-release of Dazzle Ships, including six bonus tracks.

Though the Hall & Oates original ( recorded in a Memphis-soul style ) was never released as a single, it remains a fan favorite on the duo's greatest hits albums and was featured on their Apollo Theater CD in 1985, and is frequently featured in their live set to this day.

Live at the Apollo was released primarily to fulfill the duo's contract with RCA, and contained a top-20 hit with a medley of " The Way You Do the Things You Do " and " My Girl ", both hits Ruffin and Kendrick had recorded with the Temptations in 1964.

After World War II, he recorded for Brunswick in 1944, Victor in 1946, and Apollo in 1947.

Hawkins recorded the drum tracks for the Coheed and Cambria album " Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow ", as the band's regular drummer Chris Pennie was not able to record due to contractual reasons.

Stolz, raised in Brenham, Texas ( Birthplace of Texas / Washington County ) was also known for being the first announcer's voice to the Moon as part of NASA's on-board astronaut recorded entertainment for the Apollo program.

In 2005, he recorded his first live album, Alexander O ' Neal Live at Hammersmith Apollo.

In the Himalayas, various Apollo species such as Parnassius epaphus, besides others, have been recorded to occur up to an altitude of 6, 000 meters above sea level.

Earlier, in 1985, they participated in the Hall & Oates live album Live at The Apollo recorded at a benefit at New York City's Apollo Theater ; and sang with the duo at Live Aid in Philadelphia and the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

Climb the steps from the theatre to the Via Della Tribuna Di Campitelli for an even better view of the Columns of Apollo.

Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo.

A Luwian etymology suggested for Apaliunas makes Apollo " The One of Entrapment ", perhaps in the sense of " Hunter ".

An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as god of healing and, possibly, of physicians.

To protect his mother, Apollo begged Hephaestus for a bow and arrows.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.

Following a spirited chase by Apollo, Daphne prays to her father, Peneus, for help, and he changes her into the laurel tree, sacred to Apollo.

Clytia, jealous of her sister because she wanted Apollo for herself, told Orchamus the truth, betraying her sister's trust and confidence in her.

Apollo refused to forgive Clytia for betraying his beloved, and a grieving Clytia wilted and slowly died.

Apollo then killed him for what he did.

Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre.

Another contender for the birthplace of Apollo is the Cretan islands of Paximadia.

Apollo flayed Marsyas alive in a cave near Celaenae in Phrygia for his hubris to challenge a god.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

This type served certain religious needs and was first proposed for what was previously thought to be depictions of Apollo.

The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

* In the Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from the corpse of Sarpedon and anoints it with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike return to Sarpedon's native Lycia.