* 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

Four days after his birth, Apollo killed the chthonic dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.

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.

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

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

Apollo then killed him for what he did.

Apollo gave him a tame deer as a companion but Cyparissus accidentally killed it with a javelin as it lay asleep in the undergrowth.

Apollo killed the Aloadae when they attempted to storm Mt.

Apollo succeeded despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a pre-launch test.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

When Artemis and Apollo heard this impiety, Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis shot her daughters, who died instantly without a sound.

Myths indicate that Apollo killed the chthonic serpent Python, Pythia in older myths, but according to some later accounts his wife, Pythia, who lived beside the Castalian Spring.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since she was a child of Gaia.

The crew of the Apollo 13 mission survived despite an explosion caused by a faulty oxygen tank ( 1970 ); the crews of Soyuz 11 ( 1971 ), the Space Shuttles Challenger ( 1986 ) and Columbia ( 2003 ) were killed by malfunctions of their vessels ' components.

* 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

While landing on Tenedos, Achilles killed king Tenes, son of Apollo, despite a warning by his mother that if he did so he would be killed himself by Apollo.

He was killed after Paris shot a poisoned arrow that was guided by Apollo.

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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.

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.

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

Clytia, jealous of her sister because she wanted Apollo for herself, told Orchamus the truth, betraying her sister's trust and confidence in her.

Apollo changed her into an incense plant, either heliotrope or sunflower, which follows the sun every day.

Zeus made her choose between them, and she chose Idas on the grounds that Apollo, being immortal, would tire of her when she grew old.

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

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

Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future, with a curse that she could only see the future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.

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

Upon her death, Apollo transformed her into a sun-loving herb.

Oracles were also given by sons of Apollo.

It was not long before the Pallantides ' hopes of succeeding the apparently childless Aegeus would be lost if they did not get rid of Theseus ( the Pallantides were the sons of Pallas and nephews of King Aegeus, who were then living at the royal court in the sanctuary of Delphic Apollo ).

It is notable that tradition as it comes down to us does not record any children arising from a union of gods with Thebe, Plataea, Thespia or Tanagra and only Diodorus ( 4. 72. 1 ) mentions the otherwise unknown sons Phaiax, son of Poseidon by Corcyra, and Syrus sprung from Apollo by Sinope and that this child of Sinope is opposed by a conflicting tradition that Sinope tricked Zeus, Apollo and Halys and remained a virgin.

Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons.

Their father, Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo for having sworn revenge.

Artemis ; 5 daughters with a nurse ; younger son with a pedagogue ; 3 other sons ; Apollo.

Apollo and Artemis slew all the children of Niobe with their arrows, Apollo shooting the sons, Artemis the daughters.

Together, she and Apollo had two sons: Aristaeus, the demigod who invented beekeeping, and Idmon, the Argonaut seer.

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

* Hipponous and Adrastus, two otherwise unknown sons of Heracles, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo.

The Trojans brought the Trojan Horse into their city against the advice of Cassandra ( given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but condemned to never be believed for not returning his love ) and Laocoön ( because two serpents came out of the water and strangled him and his sons, which the Trojans saw as a punishment for attacking the horse with a spear ).

* Linus ( mythology ), any of three sons of Apollo

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

The genealogies make them a kindred people with the Centaurs: in one version, Lapithes ( Λαπίθης ) and Centaurus ( Κένταυρος ) were said to be twin sons of the god Apollo and the nymph Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus.

There he killed his hosts, Dorus and Laodocus and Polypoetes, the sons of Phthia and Apollo, and called the country Aetolia after himself.

In Greek mythology, Troilus is a young Trojan prince, one of the sons of King Priam ( or sometimes Apollo ) and Hecuba.

Calliope also had two famous sons, Orpheus and Linus, by either Apollo or the king Oeagrus of Thrace.