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- Apollo – Mythopedia
Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy, hoping she would sleep with him in return; when Cassandra refused, Apollo cursed her so that nobody would believe her prophecies Thus, even though Cassandra repeatedly warned her people that the city of Troy would fall, nobody listened Other Myths Apollo is virtually ubiquitous in Greek mythology
- Apollo (Roman) - Mythopedia
Apollo and his lyre are the subject of this colorful fresco adorning a Roman house in Pompeii Carole Raddato CC BY-SA 2 0 Apollo usually carried a lyre, his favorite musical instrument, and was often portrayed as a beardless youth Described as “shining” and “the sun,” he was sometimes depicted with rays of light emanating from his body
- Orpheus – Mythopedia
Orpheus’ father was either a Thracian man named Oeagrus or, in an alternative genealogy, the god Apollo, who was closely associated with art, music, and inspiration His mother was usually said to have been one of the nine Muses Augustan fresco showing Apollo with a kithara from the House of the Scalae Caci on the Palatine Hill in Rome
- Homeric Hymns: 3. To Apollo (Full Text) - Mythopedia
There the lord Phoebus Apollo resolved to make his lovely temple, and thus he said: “In this place I am minded to build a glorious temple to be an oracle for men, and here they will always bring perfect hecatombs, both they who dwell in rich Peloponnesus and the men of Europe and from all the wave-washed isles, coming to question me
- Leto – Mythopedia
Apollo and Artemis went on to join the ranks of the Twelve Olympians, and Leto herself was often said to dwell with her children on Mount Olympus Unlike many of the other Titans, Leto was fairly important in Greek religion and had her own cult in a handful of Greek cities
- Marsyas – Mythopedia
Marsyas and Apollo prepared for the contest They chose judges (depending on the tradition, the contest was judged by either the Muses, the Phrygian king Midas, the mountain god Tmolus, the people of the nearby city of Nysa, or, as sometimes in art, by Athena) Though both Marsyas and Apollo played beautifully, Apollo was declared the winner
- Hecate – Mythopedia
These included Apollo (as Apollo Delphinios), Asclepius, Hermes, Pan, and Zeus (as Zeus Meilichios and Zeus Panamaros) Other Worship: Magic Papyri, Curse Tablets, and the Chaldean Oracles Given her associations with magic, it is no surprise that Hecate was often invoked on the fringes of religious worship that dealt in magic, spells, and curses
- Hyacinthus – Mythopedia
But Hyacinthus was killed prematurely when Apollo accidentally struck him with a discus; in his grief, Apollo turned the blood that flowed from the boy’s body into the hyacinth flower Though Hyacinthus is best known from the myth in which he was accidentally killed by Apollo, he probably existed as a local Laconian god or hero long before that myth was invented
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