The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

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 an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

While in Miletus at a festival in honor of Artemis, she became an object of Apollo's desire and, fleeing from his advances, asked Pompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home.

The Pythian Games were held in Apollo's honor every four years at Delphi.

Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 776 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic ( or stephanitic ) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics.

The Pythian Games took place every four years to commemorate Apollo's victory.

It was then decided the series would take place thirty years after the end of the original series, and that Boxey would be renamed Troy and take Apollo's role, while a character named Lt. Dillon would take over the Starbuck part.

One of these survivors-clearly insane-has taken to calling himself " President Charles Manson ," but none of the Apollo's crew get the reference because the Manson killings occurred 120 years earlier in a completely different world.

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.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

In Apollo's role as a healer, his appellations included Acesius ( ; Ἀκέσιος, Akesios, from ἄκεσις, " healing "), Acestor ( ; Ἀκέστωρ, Akestōr, literally " healer "), Paean ( ; Παιάν, Paiān, from παίειν, " to touch "), and Iatrus ( ; Ἰατρός, Iātros, literally " physician ").

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

Marsyas under Apollo's punishment ; Istanbul Archaeology Museums | İstanbul Archaeology Museum.

By some accounts, the archer is Paris with Apollo's help ; by others it is Apollo disguised as Paris.

Marsyas under Apollo's punishment ; Istanbul Archaeology Museums | İstanbul Archaeology Museum.

At this moment Apollo's attention becomes engaged, and he begins his own pursuit ; Parthenius ' modern editor remarks on the rather awkward transition, linking two narratives.

In December 1955 Burke was signed to Apollo, soon after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Apollo's primary star, had left for Columbia Records, accusing Apollo of cheating her out of her royalties, and the owner, Bessie " Bess " Berman ( born June 3, 1902 in New York ; died October 29, 1997 ), of " having a plantation attitude toward Negroes.

When Apollo's word came back, he might still have left the murder of Laius uninvestigated ; but piety and justice required him to act.

* Apollo's Salvage ( 1995 ; CD on Ghostmeat Records ; features the song " Pay Per View ")

Points of interest include: the art-deco Marshall Square Theater at Cermak Road and Marshall Boulevard, which was originally a vaudeville venue, later a silent movie theater, and currently a venue for banquets, weddings, and Latin music under the current name of " Apollo's 2000 "; the remaining building of the former Albaugh-Dover mail-order warehouse and factory on Marshall Boulevard at 21st ; the massive Carter Harrison High School at 24th Boulevard and Marshall Boulevard, now an elementary school named for Maria Saucedo, an area teacher who lost her life in a fire in 1981, and is the alma mater of clarinet player Benny Goodman and newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet ; and the highly visible statue of Marquette and Joliet which stands at the junction between Marshall and 24th Boulevards.

Each team member's weakness was exploited ; in Apollo's case this appeared to be jealousy in his relationship with Midnighter, who confessed to Apollo that he had kissed another man.

This 28-day lunar polar orbit mission would be flown after the Apollo's and ELM's, in order to have several " ground-truth " sites.

( Artemis, whom Alex was named after, was the Greek mythological moon goddess, and Apollo's twin.

The second-largest town is Artemonas ( 744 ), thought to be named after an ancient temple of Apollo's sister-goddess Artemis, located at the site of the church of Panayia Kokhi.

To prevent riders on the Rapids from being hit by loose articles from riders on Apollo's Chariot, nets are present on the segment of track from the left hand turn after passing under the lift hill to the final drop, as well as on the predrop at the top of the lift hill.

After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.

Apollo in recompense for Admetus ' treatment — the Hellenistic poet Callimachus of Alexandria makes him Apollo's eromenos — made all the cows bear twins while he served as his cowherd.

Rocky and Apollo's trainer Duke ( Tony Burton ) plead with him to give up, but Apollo refuses to do so, and tells Rocky not to stop the fight.

Rocky at first seems unaffected by Apollo's smear campaign, but his inexperience with money causes him to run into financial problems.

However, Apollo's obsession with knocking Rocky out ( against the advice of his corner men ) leads him to trade blows with Rocky despite his lead.

Afterwards, Rocky fulfills Apollo's vague " big favor ": a private rematch with him.

There his navy stormed the island, and Achilles fought Tenes, in this myth a son of Apollo, and killed him, not knowing Tenes's lineage and hence unaware of the danger of Apollo's revenge.

Because of Apollo's jealousy, his true gender was revealed by the nymphs, who killed him instantly upon discovery.

Thanatos challenges Apollo's apparent defense of Alcestis and accuses him of " twisting slippery tricks " when he helped Admetus cheat death in the first place.

Unable to be the most fantastically vain man, Hamner prepares to withdraw his edition, but " Apollo's May ' r and Aldermen " ( B IV 116 ) take the page from him.

" The legend which was especially attributed to him was that of Apollo's sojourn among the Hyperboreans.

However, Apollo's strength of character and force of will prevailed and Count Iblis was twice wounded by blasts of psychic energy, which was enough to push him into retreating from the fleet.

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo acknowledges that Apollo's gift of prophecy first came to him from three bee maidens, usually identified with the Thriae.

Apollo's cursed gift to Cassandra became a source of endless pain and frustration to her.

The Pythia, when about to deliver, would chew leaves from Apollo's sacred laurel tree and would then sit on her holy tripod, seated in the innermost sanctum, over a crack on the rock from where noxious volcanic fumes emanated.

In one version of the story, Acantha refused Apollo's advances and scratched his face when he tried to rape her.

In Greek mythology, the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe, born of the royal house of Phrygia, had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis ' mother: a classic example of hubris.

Selene finally convinced Artemis, who, in turn, elicited her brother Apollo's help, in order to persuade Zeus to allow the island to arise from the sea.

Hygieia and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia (" Hygiene " the goddess / personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation ), Panacea ( the goddess of Universal remedy ), Iaso ( the goddess of recuperation from illness ), Aceso ( the goddess of the healing process ), and Aglæa / Ægle ( the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment ).

In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, now thought to have been composed in 522 BCE during Classical times, a small detail is provided regarding Apollo's combat with the serpent, in some sections identified as the deadly Drakaina, or her parent.

" In some accounts, Apollo sent the boar to kill Adonis, a favorite of Aphrodite, as revenge for the goddess blinding Apollo's son Erymanthus when he saw her bathing.

Ovid tells the story that laurel tree was first formed when the nymph Daphne was changed into a laurel tree because of Apollo's pursuit of her.

Scotty steps forward to defend her against Apollo's advances, but he finds his weapon destroyed.