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Apollo and shot
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.
According to the Homeric-hymn to the Pythian, Apollo shot his first arrow as an infant which effectively slew the serpent Pytho, the son of Gaia, who guarded the spot.
They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heracleidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
Brown performed the song in the film at Apollo Creed's final fight, shot in the Ziegfeld Room at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and was credited in the film as " The Godfather of Soul.
He was killed after Paris shot a poisoned arrow that was guided by Apollo.
They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heracleidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
However, every time he shot an arrow at Hector, Apollo, the protector of the Trojans, would foil the shot-an ironic reference to the fact that Apollo would guide Paris ' arrow into Achilles ' heel.
Eros shot Apollo with one of his arrows, causing him to fall in love with Daphne.
It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena's brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, ambushed Achilles and shot him in the heel with an arrow, supposedly guided by the hand of Apollo himself, steeped in poison.
They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
* The matte shot of the giant Apollo is enhanced to remove a prominent matte line.
The Greek god Apollo is depicted having just shot a death-dealing arrow.
But in his rage Achilles pursues the Trojans into the very gates of Troy, and at the Scaean Gates he is killed by an arrow shot by Paris, assisted by the god Apollo.
Furthermore, some images are presented out of context: the images of rocket stage separation are test footage shot during earlier missions ; a shot used to represent Trans Lunar Injection is in fact footage of a Gemini mission re-entry ; and some images of a spacewalk are from an earlier Gemini mission, not Apollo.
A filmed version of the stage play was shot at the Apollo Theatre with a live audience and was released in both full and abridged versions.
Apollo also explained that his second death was now once again the result of Count Iblis ' deceitful machinations, and that if John didn't return Apollo to life, more lives and souls ( especially Sheba's ) would be in jeopardy because there would be no one to stop Iblis ' rampage — an indirect consequence of which was the death of Commander Adama, shot by Baltar.

Apollo and arrows
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.
Apollo and his sister Artemis can bring death with their arrows.
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.
To protect his mother, Apollo begged Hephaestus for a bow and arrows.
Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions of the myth, a number of the Niobids were spared ( Chloris, usually ).
Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.
Gold stater of the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter ( reigned 281 – 261 BCE ) showing on the reverse a nude Apollo holding his key attributes: two arrows and leaning on a bow.
Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions two of the Niobids were spared, one boy and one girl.
He attempted to rape Leto near Delphi under the orders of Hera, but was laid low by the arrows of Apollo and / or Artemis, as Pindar recalled in a Pythian ode.
The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).
Hyginus, however, writes that in his madness he tried to attack the temple of Apollo, and was killed by the god's arrows.
* Ephialtes of the Aloadae: Shot by grandnephews Apollo and Heracles with arrows, or inadvertently killed by Otus.
* Otus of the Aloadae: Shot by grandnephews Apollo and Heracles with arrows, or inadvertently killed by Ephialtes.
Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons.
Apollo and Artemis slew all the children of Niobe with their arrows, Apollo shooting the sons, Artemis the daughters.
Thus when Apollo the infant was grown he pursued Python, making his way straight for Mount Parnassus where the serpent dwelled, and chased it to the oracle of Gaia at Delphi ; there he dared to penetrate the sacred precinct and kill it with his arrows beside the rock cleft where the priestess sat on her tripod.
Reverse: Nude Apollo seated on omphalos left, leaning on bow and holding two arrows.
In Kition, Cyprus, Resheph had the epithet of ḥṣ, interpreted as " arrow " by Javier Teixidor, who consequently interprets Resheph as a god of plague, comparable to Apollo whose arrows bring plague to the Danaans ( Iliad I. 42-55 ).

Apollo and with
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.
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.
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 ).
* 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.

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