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.

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.

As the leader of the Muses ( Apollon Musegetes ) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry.

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.

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, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god.

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.

As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs, from αἴγλη, " light of the sun "), Helius ( ; Ἥλιος, Helios, literally " sun "), Phanaeus ( ; Φαναῖος, Phanaios, literally " giving or bringing light "), and Lyceus ( ; Λύκειος, Lukeios, from Proto-Greek * λύκη, " light ").

As god of the sun, the Romans referred to Apollo as Sol ( ; literally " sun " in Latin ).

In his role as god of prophecy and truth, Apollo had the epithets Manticus ( ; Μαντικός, Mantikos, literally " prophetic "), Leschenorius ( ; Λεσχηνόριος, Leskhēnorios, from λεσχήνωρ, " converser "), and Loxias ( ; Λοξίας, Loxias, from λέγειν, " to say ").

As god of music and arts, Apollo had the epithet Musagetes ( ; Doric Μουσαγέτας, Mousāgetās ) or Musegetes ( ; Μουσηγέτης, Mousēgetēs, from Μούσα, " Muse ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ").

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 Belenus was a healing and sun god.

Apollo Cunomaglus may have been a god of healing.

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

Apollo became the god of shining youth, the protector of music, spiritual-life, moderation and perceptible order.

It was in this way that Apollo had become recognised as the god of music.

Once Pan had the audacity to compare his music with that of Apollo, and to challenge Apollo, the god of the kithara, to a trial of skill.

Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

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 playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

Apollo, the god of music and poetry, also appears, along with a female figure tentatively identified as Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses.

Once, Pan had the audacity to compare his music with that of Apollo, and challenged Apollo, the god of the lyre, to a trial of skill ( also see Marsyas ).

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

* Hymn to Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi ; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the western world.

Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment.

* The Apollo ( Glasgow ), a former music venue in Glasgow, Scotland

Pan once had the audacity to compare his music with that of Apollo, and to challenge Apollo, the god of the lyre, to a trial of skill.

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas () is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute ( aulos ) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it ; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

* A Hymn addressed to Apollo, the god of arts and music.

Some by the performers for whom they were written, such as the concertos for piano ( 1939 ), violin ( 1955 ) and cello ( 1970 ); some by literary and theatrical partners, such as the film music, ballets, cantatas and The Olympians ; some by painters, such as the Serenade and the Metamorphic Variations ; some by classical literature, such as Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ), The Enchantress and Pastoral.

Sol Gittler ( Dick O ' Neill ) signs them up sight-unseen for the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, assuming from their music that they're a black band.

" In the 3rd century, Apollo fell silent.

She fell in love with Apollo who disguised himself as Leucothea's mother to gain entrance to her chambers.

Apollo fell in love with Cassandra and promised her the gift of prophecy to seduce her, but she rejected him afterwards.

Actium belonged originally to the Corinthian colonists of Anactorium, who probably founded the worship of Apollo Actius and the Actia games ; in the 3rd century BC it fell to the Acarnanians, who subsequently held their synods there.

When Apollo slew Python, its body fell into this fissure, according to legend, and fumes arose from its decomposing body.

In the decades following Mariner and Apollo, the once-popular subgenre of realistic stories about a first expedition to Mars fell out of fashion, possibly due to the failure of the Apollo Program to continue on to Mars.

Apollo, who was present, immediately fell in love with her and kidnapped her.

While Apollo was away, Coronis, already pregnant with Asclepius, fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus.

When she fell asleep Apollo raped her.

The use of this wreath comes from the Greek myth involving Apollo, Zeus ’ son and the god of life and light, who fell in love with the nymph Daphne.

Hyacinth ran to catch it to impress Apollo, but he was struck by the discus as it fell to the ground, and died.

Hyacinth ran to catch it to impress Apollo, was struck by the discus as it fell to the ground, and died.

Both the tenants ' bid and one by Apollo Group fell short of Tishman Speyer's offer, though the latter came within $ 100 million of Speyer's $ 5. 4 billion.

When Atia had come in the middle of the night to the solemn service of Apollo, she had her litter set down in the temple and fell asleep, while the rest of the matrons also slept.

Byblis, niece of Apollo, fell deeply in love with her twin brother Caunus.

The IBM RT / PC consequently fell behind competitors such as Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer who ported UNIX directly to their platforms.

Issue # 6 of Midnighter's solo series starred a nameless, super-skilled swordsman from feudal Japan who fell in love with a peace-seeking Chinese warrior much like Apollo.

There are currently three sources of Moon rocks on Earth: 1 ) those collected by US Apollo missions ; 2 ) samples returned by the Soviet Union Luna missions ; and 3 ) rocks that were ejected naturally from the lunar surface by cratering events and subsequently fell to Earth as lunar meteorites.