Apr 11, 2023 · Apollo was one of the Twelve Olympians and the Greek god of prophecy, healing, art, and culture. He embodied the Greek ideal of masculine beauty.

Mar 8, 2023 · Apollo was the Roman god who inspired prophecy, poetry, music, and medicine. Incorporated directly from the Greeks after a plague devastated Rome, he was both the bringer of …

Jul 14, 2025 · The Homeric Hymns, traditionally attributed to Homer, are a collection of thirty-three poems, each one honoring an individual god (or group of gods). Mostly composed between the …

Mar 24, 2023 · Python was a serpent of extraordinary size, sometimes said to have been the first guardian of Delphi. When Apollo was still young, he slew the terrible monster with his arrows and …

TO APOLLO (1–5) Phoebus, of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, …

TO HERMES (1–29) Muse, sing of Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, the luck-bringing messenger of the immortals whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed nymph, …

Feb 9, 2023 · Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was a beautiful princess of Troy. Cassandra was a seer and repeatedly warned the Trojans of their impending doom, but Apollo cursed her so …

Mar 25, 2023 · The Uranian Cyclopes—named Brontes, Steropes, and Arges—were children of Gaia and Uranus and loyal allies of the Olympians. Master craftsmen, they frequently fashioned weapons, …

Sep 18, 2023 · Hyacinthus was a beautiful Spartan prince who was loved by the god Apollo. When Apollo accidentally killed his young lover with an errant discus throw, he turned his blood into the …

Mar 23, 2023 · Marsyas was a satyr who roamed the woodlands of Phrygia. A virtuoso of the panpipes, he foolishly challenged Apollo, the god of music himself, to a music contest. Upon being defeated, …