Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BCE to celebrate the dawn of a new era.

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.

Another legend held that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in Thessaly, to pick laurel ( also known as bay tree ) which he considered to be a sacred plant.

They are called " treasuries " because they held the offerings made to Apollo ; these were frequently a " tithe " or tenth of the spoils of a battle.

Allegedly, it passed in turn from one of the seven sages to another, beginning with Thales, until one of them ( either Thales or Solon, depending on the story ) finally dedicated it to Apollo who was held to be wisest of all.

On February 2, 1849, at a political rally held in the Apollo Theater, a young Roman priest, the Abbé Arduini, had made a speech in which he had declared that the temporal power of the popes was a " historical lie, a political imposture, and a religious immorality .".

Besides standard vehicular travel, a 45 kilometre section between Lorne and Apollo Bay is used for the annual Great Ocean Road Marathon, first started in 2005., the marathon record of two hours, 27 minutes and 42 seconds set in 2011 is held by James Kipkelwon, of Kenya.

Engagements were also held at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco for eight months, the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland for nine weeks, the Majestic Theatre in Boston, the Apollo Theater in Chicago, and also in Philadelphia, Detroit, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Washington, D. C., and Baltimore.

Along with Halicarnassus ( present day Bodrum, Turkey ) and Kos, and the Rhodian cities of Lindos, Kamiros and Ialyssos it formed the Dorian Hexapolis, which held its confederate assemblies on the Triopian headland, and there celebrated games in honour of Apollo, Poseidon and the nymphs.

" Three slabs which have survived represent Apollo ; Marsyas ; a slave, and six of the Muses, the slab which held the other three having disappeared.

The Pythian Games ( Delphic Games ) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held every four years at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.

They were held in honour of Apollo two years after ( and two years before ) each Olympic Games, and between each Nemean and Isthmian Games.

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

The society also took the position that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax, staged by Hollywood and based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke, a position also held by others not connected to the Flat Earth Society.

Mott The Hoople also held a warmup gig prior to their five-night stand at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo in October.

Walter Burkert has suggested that the Hymn to Apollo, attributed by an ancient source to Cynaethus of Chios ( a member of the Homeridae ), was composed in 522 BC for performance at the unusual double festival held by Polycrates of Samos to honor Apollo of Delos and of Delphi.

In September 2002, they held a live performance at the Hammersmith Apollo ( London ) and received strong accolades for their performance.

Nicander of Colophon ( Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος, 2nd century BC ), Greek poet, physician and grammarian, was born at Claros, ( Ahmetbeyli, Izmir in modern Turkey ), near Colophon, where his family held the hereditary priesthood of Apollo.

Although normally tasked with tracking unmanned spacecraft, the Deep Space Network ( DSN ) also contributed to the communication and tracking of Apollo missions to the Moon, although primary responsibility was held by the Manned Space Flight Network.

* 6 – 13: Ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo, first held in 212 BC as a one-day event ( July 13 ) and established as annual in 208 BC.

As Conrad flew their Apollo Command / Service Module ( CSM ) near the station, Weitz unsuccessfully attempted to deploy the surviving solar array from the CSM's hatch while Kerwin held onto his legs.

On February 2, 1849, at a political rally held in the Teatro Apollo, a young Roman ex-priest, the Abbé Arduini, made a speech in which he declared that the temporal power of the popes was a " historical lie, a political imposture, and a religious immorality.

In 1969, while her father was covering the Apollo 11 Mission, Toksvig held hands with Neil Armstrong's secretary as he stepped on to the moon.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

Homer pictures Apollo on the side of the Trojans, fighting against the Achaeans, during the Trojan War.

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.

To punish this insolence, Latona begs Apollo and Artemis to avenge her against Niobe and to uphold her honor.

Perhaps the most notable of these are the Apollo Sauroktonos, or the lizard-slayer, a youth leaning against a tree and idly striking with an arrow at a lizard ( Louvre Museum ), and the Aphrodite of Cnidus at the Vatican Museums, which is a copy of the statue made by Praxiteles for the people of Cnidus, and by them valued so highly that they refused to sell it to King Nicomedes, who was willing in return to discharge the whole debt of the city, which, says Pliny, was enormous.

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 ).

Disregarding Athena's advice, Diomedes attacks Apollo twice before Apollo warns him not to match himself against immortals.

A warrior named Eumelus took the lead and Diomedes could have overtaken him easily but Apollo ( who had a grudge against him ) made him drop the whip.

Apollo, whose Pagasaean sanctuary was next to the place where the characters meet, is said to have stirred Heracles up against Cycnus.

Tenes fought in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans and was slain by Achilles, even though Thetis had previously warned her son against doing so, for Tenes ' death would be avenged by Apollo.

* Antiphus, a defender of Thebes against the Seven, was killed by Amphiaraus and Apollo

In Leland's Gospel, Aradia is portrayed as the messianic daughter of the goddess Diana and the god Lucifer ( who is called god of the sun, leading others to replace him with Apollo ), who was sent to Earth in order to teach the oppressed peasants how to perform witchcraft to use against the Roman Catholic Church and the upper classes.

" Eve at the Fountain " In 1811 he gained the Royal Academy gold medal for a model of Hercules restoring Alcestis to Admetus, and soon after exhibited Apollo discharging his Arrows against the Greeks and Hercules casting Lichas into the Sea.

Although there is no U. S. law specifically against the ownership of Apollo moonrocks, none has ever been ( or is likely to ever be ) given or sold by the U. S. government to private citizens.

On June 29, 2011, the United States Government filed a lawsuit against Mitchell in the United States District Court in Miami, Florida after discovering that he possessed a camera used by the Apollo 14 crew on the moon, and had put the camera up for auction at the British auction house Bonhams.

" Lightman also wrote, " Las Vegas bookies probably would have given Sperling 100-to-1 odds against his business, but he not only survived, he grew the Apollo Group -- parent of University of Phoenix and related interests -- into a public company with a market capitalization ( as of May 2001 ) of almost $ 7 billion, making it roughly as successful as many vastly more publicized dot-com champions.

At Versailles, Louis XIV's consistent iconographic theme of the triumphs of Apollo and the Olympians against all adversaries included the fountain of Enceladus in its own cabinet de verdure, which was cut into the surrounding woodland and outlined by trelliswork ,; the ensemble has recently been restored ( illustration ).

Stung by criticism that the moon-base project has no real justification — 37 years ago, President Richard Nixon canceled the final planned Apollo moon missions because the program was accomplishing little at great expense ; as early as 1964, the communitarian theorist Amitai Etzioni was calling lunar obsession a “ moondoggle ”— NASA is selling the new plan as a second moon race, this time against Beijing.

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired ; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform ( targeting North America's eastern seaboard ) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo ( previously fighting against Sheridan ) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life (" Endgame ").

The two companies, who were rivals during the early days of Apollo for the contract to build the " Block II " ( moonwalking ) space suit, teamed up in 1974 against the David Clark Company and Garrett AiResearch for the EMU development and construction.

The citizens of Amphissa in Ozolian Locris had begun cultivating land sacred to Apollo on the Crisaean plain south of Delphi ; after some internal bickering the Amphictyonic council decided to declare a sacred war against Amphissa.

Mansart's elevations for the pavilions were to be frescoed to designs adapted from a suite that Le Brun had recently drawn and the frescoed exteriors of the otherwise somewhat severe buildings created a richly Baroque ensemble of feigned sculptures against draperies and hangings, with vases on feigned sculptural therms against the piers — all in the somewhat eclectic Olympian symbolism that Le Brun and the King favoured everywhere at Versailles: the decor of the pavillon du Roi featured Apollo, the Sun King's iconographic persona, and Thetis.