To Apollo's initial horror she caused herself to jump in age to fourteen years ; after convincing him to support her she set about rounding up the surviving members of The Authority, including The Midnighter.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The oracle responded that the impious on Earth hindered Apollo's ability to provide advice.

The Pythia, when about to deliver, would chew leaves from Apollo's sacred laurel tree and would then sit on her holy tripod, seated in the innermost sanctum, over a crack on the rock from where noxious volcanic fumes emanated.

Thus, the Athenians sent a religious mission to the island of Delos ( one of Apollo's most sacred sanctuaries ) on the Athenian state galley — the ship itself — to pay their fealty to the god.

These Cyclopes also created Poseidon's trident, Artemis's bow and arrows of moonlight, Apollo's bow and arrows of sun rays, and Hades's helmet of darkness that was given to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa.

Rhoeo then, placing the baby on Apollo's altar, challenged the god to care for it, if it was his.

At this moment Apollo's attention becomes engaged, and he begins his own pursuit ; Parthenius ' modern editor remarks on the rather awkward transition, linking two narratives.

Incensed by Drago's cold indifference and feeling a deep sense of guilt, Rocky decides to avenge Apollo's death by agreeing to relinquish his title and fight Drago in Russia on Christmas Day in an unsanctioned 15-round bout.

A copy of Apollo's Medley, dating to around 1790, published in Doncaster and rediscovered in 2010, contains a song referring to " Sweet Molly Malone " on its page 78-this ends with the line " Och!

The paintings on the back wall are recognized as representing Minerva Punishing Arachne and Apollo's Victory Over Marsyas.

George Mueller, the head of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight at that time, was a systems engineer who previously worked on military missile projects, recognized all-up testing was successfully used to rapidly develop the Air Force's Minuteman ICBM program, and thought it could be used to meet Apollo's schedule.

For their part the Hyperboreans sent mysterious gifts, packed in straw, which came first to Dodona and then were passed from tribe to tribe until they came to Apollo's temple on Delos ( Pausanias ).

The Suda attributes a number of books to Abaris, including a volume of Scythian Oracles in dactylic hexameter, a prose theogony, a poem on the marriage of the river Hebrus, a work on purifications, and an account of Apollo's visit to the Hyperboreans.

Eventually Inslee co-authored Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, in which he argues that through improved Federal policies the United States can wean itself off of its dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel, create millions of Green-collar worker jobs, and stop global warming.

NASA began developing the Ares I low Earth orbit launch vehicle ( analogous to Apollo's Saturn IB ), returning to a development philosophy used for the original Saturn I, test-launching one stage at a time, which George Mueller abandoned in favor of " all-up " testing for the Saturn V. As of May 2010, the program got as far as launching the first Ares I-X first-stage flight on October 28, 2009 and testing the Orion launch abort system.

* Apollo's Salvage ( 1995 ; CD on Ghostmeat Records ; features the song " Pay Per View ")

Work began on VUE in 1988 at Apollo Computer for use with Domain / OS, as an alternative to Apollo's standard DM and wmgr.

* The attack on Apollo's temple has been modified.

Points of interest include: the art-deco Marshall Square Theater at Cermak Road and Marshall Boulevard, which was originally a vaudeville venue, later a silent movie theater, and currently a venue for banquets, weddings, and Latin music under the current name of " Apollo's 2000 "; the remaining building of the former Albaugh-Dover mail-order warehouse and factory on Marshall Boulevard at 21st ; the massive Carter Harrison High School at 24th Boulevard and Marshall Boulevard, now an elementary school named for Maria Saucedo, an area teacher who lost her life in a fire in 1981, and is the alma mater of clarinet player Benny Goodman and newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet ; and the highly visible statue of Marquette and Joliet which stands at the junction between Marshall and 24th Boulevards.

Apollo's powers include superhuman strength, flight, and near invulnerability ( the character has been shown entering a lava flow to deactivate a volcano, and walking on the surface of the sun ).

Like Superman, Apollo's powers are dependent on the sun.

In newer Greek mythology, Adonis was said to have been one of Apollo's, the god of Light, lovers.

" In some accounts, Apollo sent the boar to kill Adonis, a favorite of Aphrodite, as revenge for the goddess blinding Apollo's son Erymanthus when he saw her bathing.

Because of Apollo's jealousy, his true gender was revealed by the nymphs, who killed him instantly upon discovery.

Even the mild-tempered Isocrates felt that the Phocian mercenaries were better off dead than alive ... Dreadful indeed was the punishment, but it was entirely consistent with Philip's role as Apollo's champion ".

Most of the Apollo's crew are descended from expatriate Americans-the protagonist is a young man who grew up in the American Ghetto in Dublin, for instance-and have become mostly assimilated into European society, but still feel some vague draw to the abandoned continent to the west.

Another version features Acantha as a mortal man who returned Apollo's advances.

He also encounters " Spats Katz ", now a wheelchair-bound old man who was killed by an old caretaker, the mysterious monster named " The Lure " who lives in the jewel mines under Indigo City and stole Johnny Apollo's soul, and Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party all reincarnated as cockroaches.

Unable to be the most fantastically vain man, Hamner prepares to withdraw his edition, but " Apollo's May ' r and Aldermen " ( B IV 116 ) take the page from him.

Each team member's weakness was exploited ; in Apollo's case this appeared to be jealousy in his relationship with Midnighter, who confessed to Apollo that he had kissed another man.

The hounds of hell search out their quarry in Apollo's sanctuary as they do in the tent of Richard 3.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The epithet " Smintheus " has historically been confused with σμίνθος, " mouse ", in association with Apollo's role as a god of disease.

The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's twin sister.

Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods: to Dionysus, to Apollo Helios, to Apollo's son Asclepius the healer.

Sculpture depicting Apollo's first triumph, when he slew with his bow and arrows the serpent Python, which lies dead at his feet The Walters Art Museum.

Apollo's cult was already fully established when written sources commenced, about 650 BCE.

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.

Hyacinth or Hyacinthus was one of Apollo's male lovers.

Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim.

Apollo promises to protect Orestes, as Orestes has become Apollo's supplicant.

Marsyas under Apollo's punishment ; Istanbul Archaeology Museums | İstanbul Archaeology Museum.

After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.

Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow.

The Pythian Games were held in Apollo's honor every four years at Delphi.

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 pediment shows the story of Herakles stealing Apollo's tripod that was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration.

Apollo's cursed gift to Cassandra became a source of endless pain and frustration to her.

Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 776 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic ( or stephanitic ) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics.

The Pythian Games took place every four years to commemorate Apollo's victory.