The pair was practicing throwing the discus when a discus thrown by Apollo was blown off course by the jealous Zephyrus and struck Hyacinthus in the head, killing him instantly.

Apollo is said to be filled with grief: out of Hyacinthus ' blood, Apollo created a flower named after him as a memorial to his death, and his tears stained the flower petals with άί άί, meaning alas.

And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera " Apollo et Hyacinthus " was performed by males only, although the libretto differed from the original text of Ovidius to reduce homosexual relations among Apollon, Hyacinthus, and Zephyrus.

* Oebalus, Apollo et Hyacinthus

Apollo, Hyacinth ( mythology ) | Hyacinthus and Cyparissus Making Music and Singing by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov

The myth of Cyparissus, like that of Hyacinthus, has often been interpreted as reflecting the social custom of pederasty in ancient Greece, with the boy the beloved ( eromenos ) of Apollo.

It has likewise been suggested that Hyacinthus was a pre-Hellenic divinity supplanted by Apollo through the " accident " of his death, to whom he remains associated in the epithet of Apollon Hyakinthios.

Apollo teaches Hyacinthus to become an accomplished adult.

* Apollo et Hyacinthus, the Mozart opera

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus

Apollo et Hyacinthus is an opera, K. 38, written in 1767 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was 11 years old at the time.

* Apollo and Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus, a young male beauty, was involved with the god Apollo.

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# REDIRECT Apollo et Hyacinthus

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* 2009: Bartók + Vienna ; covered Gluck ( Le cadi dupé ), Haydn ( La canterina, L ' infedeltà delusa ), Mozart ( Apollo et Hyacinthus, L ' oca del Cairo, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute ), Strauss ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Berg ( Wozzeck, Lulu ), Schoenberg ( Moses und Aron );

Dionysius of Byzantium mentions a Roman shrine to Apollo on one of the Cyanean Rocks, and the 16th-century French traveller Petrus Gyllius thought the altar was a remnant of that shrine.

Their abundant inter-war Italian counterparts included, among others, Carlo Galeffi, Giuseppe Danise, Enrico Molinari, Umberto Urbano, Cesare Formichi, Luigi Montesanto, Apollo Granforte, Benvenuto Franci, Renato Zanelli ( who switched to tenor roles in 1924 ), Mario Basiola, Giovanni Inghilleri, Carlo Morelli ( the Chilean-born younger brother of Renato Zanelli ) and Carlo Tagliabue.

* 17th-century Italian school Apollo at the home of Admete the Argonaut.

The presence of Greeks on the Italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced Roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of Apollo.

The presence of Greeks on the Italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced Roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of Apollo.

The painted mural, The Triumph of Apollo is a copy of a painting completed in the 16th century by Italian artist, Guido Reni.

Italian Cameo ( carving ) | cameo bracelet representing the days of the week, corresponding to the planets as Twelve Olympians | Olympian gods: Diana ( mythology ) | Diana as the Moon for Monday, Mars ( mythology ) | Mars for Tuesday, Mercury ( mythology ) | Mercury for Wednesday, Jupiter ( mythology ) | Jupiter for Thursday, Venus ( mythology ) | Venus for Friday, Saturn ( mythology ) | Saturn for Saturday, and Apollo as the Sun for Sunday ( Walters Art Museum )

Apollo is an Italian cafe with coffee, pasta, pizza, and other meals.

The Italian Garden features a Fountain of Apollo, a wrought iron eagle statue purchased from the Paris Exposition of 1900, life-size statues of Greek gods and goddesses, floral urns mounted on marble pedestals, and two semi-circular pergolas with Tuscan columns, marble benches and statuary.

Other Italian houses prtesented the Venice version, including the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 1814 ), the Teatro Apollo in Rome ( 1814 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 1814 ), La Fenice again ( 1815 ), the Teatro del Fondo in Naples ( 1816 ), and the Teatro San Moisè in Venice ( 1816 ).

The Apollo was one of the artworks brought back to Paris by Napoleon after his 1796 Italian Campaign.

The Academy of Arcadia was so called because its principal intention was to reform the diction of Italian poetry, which the founders believed had become corrupt through over-indulgence in the ornamentation of the baroque style, under the inspiration of pastoral literature, the conventions of which imagined the life of shepherds, originally supposed to have lived in Arcadia in the golden age, divinely inspired in poetry by the Muses, Apollo, Hermes and Pan.

In the eighteenth century the ecclesiastical authorities tried to give a less profane aspect to the composition, by engraving the name of David under the Apollo, and of Judith under the Minerva " ( Rodolfo Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome 1896, ch.

Wander past the three superb Columns of Apollo by the arches of the theatre.

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 ").

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.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

Was believed to have been founded by Branchus, son or lover of Apollo.

Oracles were also given by sons of Apollo.

This time Apollo was aided by his sister Artemis in protecting their mother.

Aeneas was then enveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.

Apollo aided Paris in the killing of Achilles by guiding the arrow of his bow into Achilles ' heel.

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.

Artemis and Apollo Piercing Niobe's Children with their Arrows by Jacques-Louis David., Dallas Museum of Art.

Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo after swearing revenge.

Apollo and Daphne by Bernini in the Galleria Borghese.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.

Following a spirited chase by Apollo, Daphne prays to her father, Peneus, for help, and he changes her into the laurel tree, sacred to Apollo.

Marpessa was kidnapped by Idas but was loved by Apollo as well.

In Euripides ' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus.

Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.