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.

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.

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 ").

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.

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.

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.

Oracles were also given by sons of Apollo.

* In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo ; Oropus also had a sacred spring.

* in Labadea, east of Delphi, Trophonius, another son of Apollo, killed his brother and fled to the cave where he was also afterwards consulted as an oracle

The palm tree was also sacred to Apollo because he had been born under one in Delos.

Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972.

Apollo / Saturn vehicles were also used for an Apollo Applications program which consisted of three Skylab space station missions in 1973 – 74.

Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers.

It also became clear that Apollo would outgrow the Canaveral launch facilities in Florida.

The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building ( OCB ), to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles.

Likewise, Apollo 15 had also sampled material in the region of Imbrium, visiting the basin's edge.

There also remained the distinct possibility that this objective had already been satisfied by the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 missions, as the Apollo 14 samples had not yet been completely analyzed and samples from Apollo 15 had not yet been obtained.

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.

As Artemis's twin, Apollo had the epithet Didymaeus ( ; Διδυμαιος, Didumaios, from δίδυμος, " twin ").

Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.

As a protector and founder, Apollo had the epithets Alexicacus ( ; Ἀλεξίκακος, Alexikakos, literally " warding off evil "), Apotropaeus ( ; Ἀποτρόπαιος, Apotropaios, from ἀποτρέπειν, " to avert "), and Epicurius ( ; Ἐπικούριος, Epikourios, from ἐπικουρέειν, " to aid "), and Archegetes ( ; Ἀρχηγέτης, Arkhēgetēs, literally " founder "), Clarius ( ; Κλάριος, Klārios, from Doric κλάρος, " allotted lot "), and Genetor ( ; Γενέτωρ, Genetōr, literally " ancestor ").

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 ").

Apollo Vindonnus had a temple at Essarois, near Châtillon-sur-Seine in Burgundy.

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

Unusually among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi.

Apollo had a famous oracle in Delphi, and other notable ones in Clarus and Branchidae.

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.

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.

Daphne was a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, who had scorned Apollo.

By Cyrene, Apollo had a son named Aristaeus, who became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping.

Hecuba, was the wife of King Priam of Troy, and Apollo had a son with her named Troilus.

When he found out the truth he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis ( in other stories, Apollo himself had killed Coronis ).

Acantha, was the spirit of the acanthus tree, and Apollo had one of his other liaisons with her.

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.

In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

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

However, Pan's pipe couldn't be played while upside down, so Apollo won the contest.

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.

In the contest between Apollo and Marsyas, the terms stated that the winner could treat the defeated party any way he wanted.

There are several versions of the contest ; according to Hyginus, Marsyas was departing as victor after the first round, when Apollo, turning his lyre upside down, played the same tune.

* Chrysothemis, the first winner of the oldest contest held at the Pythian Games, the singing of a hymn to Apollo.

He was cursed by Agamemnon and subsequently punished by Apollo, who beat him in a musical contest ( similar to that between Apollo and Marsyas, to see who was a better musician with a lyre ) and killed him, whereupon Cinyras ' fifty daughters threw themselves into the sea and were changed into sea birds.

He was chosen to be a judge between the famous musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas.

In Greek mythology he figures as a mountain god, a son of Ares and Theogone and he judged the musical contest between Pan and Apollo.

The geography of Tmolus and the contest between Pan and Apollo are mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses, XI. 168.

Sometime in the fall of 1942 ( when Sarah was 18 years old ), Vaughan suggested that Robinson enter the Apollo Theater Amateur Night contest.

" Their first performance together was at the Apollo Theater, where they won the weekly amateur contest.

The source of our knowledge about this instrument is the Mantineia marble ( 4th century BC ), now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, depicting the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, where a pandura is being played by a muse seated on a rock.

The Mantineia Marble, dated to the 4th century BC and now exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek Pandouris being played by a muse seated on a rock.

In any case, he challenged Apollo to a musical contest, where the winner would be able to " do whatever he wanted " to the loser-Marsyas's expectation, typical of a satyr, was that this would be sexual in nature.

In early 1946, they decided to form a vocal group and recruited Leonard " Zeke " Puzey, who had recently won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater, and Henry Oliver " Ollie " Jones.

Other types of water organ were played out of sight and were used to simulate musical instruments apparently being played by statues in mythological scenes such as ' Orpheus playing the viol ', ' The contest between Apollo and Marsyas ' and ' Apollo and the nine Muses '.

Here is the place where Apollo is said to have flayed Marsyas, when he had conquered him in the contest of skill.