In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

In one version of the story, Acantha refused Apollo's advances and scratched his face when he tried to rape her.

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

Also missing from the soundtrack is the instrumental version of the song played when Rocky is training in Apollo's old gym.

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 meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

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

Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".

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

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

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

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

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.

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

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.

Luna's temple, built long before Apollo's, burned down in the Great Fire of 64 AD and was probably not replaced.

From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes talaria and a winged petasos, and carrying the caduceus, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo's gift to Hermes.

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.

With Apollo's help, Admetus completed the king's task, and was allowed to marry Alcestis.

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

and was accompanied by the kithara, which was Apollo's instrument.

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

He was the father of Ixion and Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers.

* Coronis (" crow " or " raven "), daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths, was one of Apollo's lovers.

While Coronis was carrying Apollo's child, a ( then white ) crow told Apollo of the affair between Ischys and Coronis.

He was one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean (" the Healer ").

Apollo in recompense for Admetus ' treatment — the Hellenistic poet Callimachus of Alexandria makes him Apollo's eromenos — made all the cows bear twins while he served as his cowherd.

However, Apollo's obsession with knocking Rocky out ( against the advice of his corner men ) leads him to trade blows with Rocky despite his lead.

To prevent riders on the Rapids from being hit by loose articles from riders on Apollo's Chariot, nets are present on the segment of track from the left hand turn after passing under the lift hill to the final drop, as well as on the predrop at the top of the lift hill.

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.

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

While in Miletus at a festival in honor of Artemis, she became an object of Apollo's desire and, fleeing from his advances, asked Pompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.