The famous Apollo of Mantua and its variants are early forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm.

Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).

Pothos ( mythology ) | Pothos ( Desire ), restored as Apollo Citharoedus during the Roman era ( 1st or 2nd century AD, based on a Greek work ca.

Jules Massenet and Jean Richepin ( the last as Apollo Citharoedus ), authors of Le Mage, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 16 March 1891.

The statues, as one faces the stage are: on the right, starting near the stage: Faun with Infant Bacchus ( Naples ); Apollo Citharoedus ( Rome ); Girl of Herculaneum ( Dresden ); Dancing Faun ( Rome ); Demosthenes ( Rome ); Seated Anacreon ( Copenhagen ); Euripedes ( Rome ); Diana of Versailles ( Paris ); on the left, starting near the stage: Resting Satyr of Praxiteles ( Rome ); Amazon ( Berlin ); Hermes Logios ( Paris ); Lemnian Athena ( Dresden, with head in Bologna ); Sophocles ( Rome ); Standing Anacreon ( Copenhagen ); Aeschines ( Naples ); Apollo Belvedere ( Rome ).

Works after Scopas are preserved in the British Museum ( reliefs ) in London ; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens ; the celebrated Ludovisi Ares in the Palazzo Altemps, Rome ; a statue of Pothos restored as Apollo Citharoedus in the Capitoline Museum, Rome ; and a statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

* Apollo Atepomarus (" the great horseman " or " possessing a great horse ").

In the inner hestia (" hearth ") of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned.

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

Apollo Temple's entrance (" Portara ")

The sanctuary of Apollo Lykeios (" wolf-Apollo ", but also Apollo of the twilight ) was still the most prominent feature of Argos in Pausanias ' time: in the sanctuary the tourist might see the throne of Danaus himself, an eternal flame, called the fire of Phoronius.

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

In Book XVII of The Iliad, Apollo disguises himself as Mentes to encourage Hector to fight Menelaus, (" Hector, now you're going after something you'll not catch, chasing the horses of warrior Achilles, descendant of Aeacus.

A recording of Bill Anders, made during the Apollo 8 lunar orbit, on December 24, 1968, reading from the Bible ( Genesis, Chapter 1 ) is included on the first track (" In The Beginning ") of the Mike Oldfield album The Songs of Distant Earth, with verses repeated again in the second track (" Let There Be Light ").

The worshippers of Apollo Soranus, after his cult had been subsumed by Apollo, were called Hirpi Sorani (" wolves of Soranus ", from Sabine hirpus " wolf ").

His Venus auf Erden (" Venus on Earth "), a revue-like one-act play was created in 1897 at the Apollo Theater in Friedrichstraß.

He then returned with new compositions to the Apollo Theater where, with huge success in 1899 Frau Luna (" Lady of the Moon ") was premiered.

They were first appointed in 367 BC in lieu of the patrician duumviri (" Two Men ") who had had responsibility for the care and consultation of the Sibylline books and the celebration of the games of Apollo.

* November 19-Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms ") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

* Greek mythos and heroes (" Olympian Pantheon "), among them: Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hecate, Hephaestus, Hera, Hercules, Hermes, Hestia, Nike, Pan, Poseidon and Tyche

* The group at Paestum comprising the Temple of Hera ( c. 550 BC ), the Temple of Apollo ( c. 450 BC ), the first Temple of Athena (" Basilica ") ( c. 500 BC ) and the second Temple of Hera ( 460 – 440 BC )

" Lyceum " is a Latin rendering of the Ancient Greek Λύκειον (" Lykeion "), the name of a gymnasium in Classical Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus.

Hermann Boerhaave, the Leyden professor, was wont to speak of him in his class ( which had always some pupils from England and Scotland ) as " Angliae lumen, artis Phoebum, veram Hippocratici viri speciem " (" The light of England, the skill of Apollo, the true face of Hippocrates ").

Apollo may be recognized at Knossos as PA-JA-WO (" Paian ").

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired ; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform ( targeting North America's eastern seaboard ) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo ( previously fighting against Sheridan ) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life (" Endgame ").

Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.

Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks.

In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon.

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

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.

In association with his birthplace, Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos, Apollo was called Cynthius ( ; Κύνθιος, Kunthios, literally " Cynthian "), Cynthogenes ( ; Κύνθογενης, Kunthogenēs, literally " born of Cynthus "), and Delius ( ; Δήλιος, Delios, literally " Delian ").

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 ").

Apollo was called Ismenius ( ; Ἰσμηνιός, Ismēnios, literally " of Ismenus ") after Ismenus, the son of Amphion and Niobe, whom he struck with an arrow.

Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo.

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.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

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.

Apollo and his sister Artemis can bring death with their arrows.

The Vedic Rudra has some similar functions with Apollo.

However the Indo-European component of Apollo, does not explain his strong relation with omens, exorcisms, and with the oracular cult.

Apollo Delphinios was a sea-god especially worshiped in Crete and in the islands, and his name indicates his connection with Delphi and the holy serpent Delphyne ( womb ).

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

* In Delphi, the Pythia became filled with the pneuma of Apollo, said to come from a spring inside the Adyton.

Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.