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Greek God Facts

Apollo is one of Greek mythologys significant gods, a beardless, youthful, and athletic
figure. He has variously known as a god of music, healing, plague, truth and prophecy,
poetry, the sun and light, and more. Apollos appearance was gold and sparkling, with a
muscular physique and golden hair. Apollo Facts The symbols related with Apollo
include the golden chariot, the raven, bows and arrows, the wolf, deer, the lyre, and the
laurel tree. Source: Apollo Wiki

Apollo is the son of Leto and Zeus. He has a twin sister which name are the
chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is well-known in Greek-influenced Etruscan
mythology as Apulu. His twin sister is the goddess of the hunt. As the god of sun
and light, Apollo moved the sun with his chariot and golden horses.

Birth of Apollo:

When Zeus wife Hera knew that Leto was pregnant, she banned Leto from giving
birth on Terra Firma island. In search of another place, Leto found the newly
created floating island of Delos. It was neither mainland nor a real island. She
gave birth there, and it accepted by the people. She promised them that her son
would always be favorable toward the city. After that, Zeus secured Delos to the
bottom of the ocean.

This island later became holy to Apollo.It is also saying that Hera kidnapped
Eileithyia, to stop Leto from going into labor. Mythographers agree that Artemis
was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apol lo. The Artemis was born
one day before Apollo on the Ortygia island.

The youth of Apollo:

Apollo killed the chthonic dragon Python four days after his birth, which lived in
Delphi next to the Castalian Spring. Hera sent the serpent to kill Leto . Apollo
requested Hephaestus for a bow and arrows to protect his mother. After receiving
bow and arrows, Apollo cornered Python in the sacred cave at Delphi. Afer that
Hera sent the giant Tityos to rape Leto. This time Apollo helped by his sister
Artemis in protecting their mother.

Temple of Apollo:

Many temples were devoted to Apollo in Greece and the Greek colonies. They
show the spread of the religion of Apollo and the evolution of the Greek
architecture, which based on the rightness of form and mathema tical relations.
Some of the previous temples, especially in Crete which is do not belong to any
Greek category.

It looks that the first peripteral temples were rectangular wooden structures. The
various wood elements had considered divine, and their forms preserved in the
marble and stone elements of temples of the Doric order. And the Greeks used
standard types of it because they believed that the world of objects was a
sequence of typical forms which could represent in many instances. The temples
should be canonic, and the architects were trying to attain this esthetic
perfection. Source: Apollo Wiki

From the previous times, there were specific rules strictly experiential in
rectangular peripteral and pro-style buildings. The first buildings built narrowly to
hold the roof, and when the dimensions changed some mathematical relations
became essential to keep the original forms.

It perhaps influenced theory of the numbers of Pythagoras. Who believed that

behind the appearance of the things. There was also the permanent principle of
mathematics.

The Doric order dominated between the 5th and the 6th century BC, but there was
also a mathematical problem regarding the situation of the triglyphs. It Couldnt
solve without changing its natural forms.

The order almost discarded for the Ionic law, but the Ionic capital also posed an
unsolvable problem at the corner of a temple. Source: Apollo Wiki

Important Greek Temples:

Thebes, Greece
Eretria
Dreros (Crete)
Gortyn
Thermon (West Greece)
Corinth
Napes
Cyrene, Libya
Naukratis
Syracuse, Sicily
Selinus (Sicily)
Delphi
Chios
Bassae
Ambracia
Didyma
Hamaxitus

Interesting Apollo Facts:

The mother of Apollo Leto is the goddess of dark and gloomy nights.
Apollos father Zeus is the king of gods, ruling at Mount Olympus.
Apollo was born on the Greek island named as Delos.
As a child, the Apollo fed ambrosia nectar that was holy to the gods.
The strengths of Apollo is creativity, handsomeness, and supportiveness of the arts.
The weaknesses of Apollo is nymphs, and he is not lucky in love.
Apollo falls in love with Cassandra, but she did not return his affection.
He never married formally, but he had relationships with Acacallis, Daphne, and Calliope.
 Apollo had a child with Calliope which named is Orpheus. Apollo also had two other sons
and their names are Troilus, Asclepius, and Aristaeus.
Troilus was born after the Apollo had an affair with Hecuba who was the wife of the King
of Troy.
Apollo recognized as a skilled musician. And he also played his golden lyre very well.
In spite of Apollos ability to be cruel, he was well-known to be very kind to his sister and
his mother.
He was a teacher of the medicine and Apollo also known as the healer.
Apollo is also known as the God of Truth and the God of Light.
The most blessed animals to Apollo were the swan and the dolphin.

Apollos Tree

Apollos tree was the laurel, and in Greece, this tree is a status symbol.
Apollo killed Hyacinthus which was his closest friend, by a mishap during a discus
contest.
The Apollo was one of 12 gods on Mount Olympus.
These 12 gods were the principal gods of Greek mythology. Source: Apollo Wiki
When the giant Tityos tried to kill his mother Leto, Apollo saved her mother and killed him.
Apollo slew the python at Delphi where it jealously guarded the oracle (a divine prophet).
He also guarded the oracle against Hercules when he became angry with her.
Apollo also appears in Ancient Rome, and there he worshipped as a healing god and a
sun god.
During the war of Trojan, Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into a Greek
encampment.
He also helped Paris to kill the Achilles.
Apollos other names are Phoebus, Phanaeus, Helios, and Aegletes.
The Greek name of Apollo was Phoebus Apollo.
He sent mice to invade Troy or Greece when Apollo was angry. When Apollo returned to
a good mood, he would destroy the mice.
Apollo was also known as a Mouse Daemon. Source: Apollo Wiki