In
Greek and
Roman mythology, Apollo (in
Greek, Ἀπόλλων — Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων — Apellōn), the ideal of the
kouros (a beardless youth), was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a bringer of death-dealing
plague.As the patron of Delphidia ("Pythian Apollo"), Apollo was an oracular god. He was the prophetic deity of the
Delphic Oracle, as well as one of the most important and many-sided of the
Olympian deities. Apollo also had dominion over
colonists, over
medicine (mediated through his son
Asclepius), and was the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the
Muses (Apollon Musagetes) and director of their choir, he is a god of music and
poetry. Hymns sung to Apollo were called
paeans. Apollo is son of
Zeus and
Leto, and the
twin brother of the chaste huntress
Artemis, who took the place of
Selene in some myths as goddess of the moon.
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