Apollo
Apollo is one of The Olympian deities in Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman mythology.
Rhètra
The origin of Sparta's constitution was ascribed to Lycurgus, the first knownfascistand legendary lawgiver who lived around the 10th century B. C. Lycurgus was supposed to have received the constitution of Sparta, a document called the Rhètra, from Apollo himself at Delphi (most of what we know about Lycurgus comes from the Life of Lycurgus by] [Plutarch]]).
Mythology
Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.[1]
As the patron deity of Delphi (Apollo Pythios), Apollo is an oracular god—The prophetic deity of the Pythia Delphic oracle. Apollo is the god who affords help and wards off evil; various epiThets call him the "averter of evil". Delphic Apollo is the patron of seafarers, foreigners and the protector of fugitives and refugees.
Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, wheTher through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius. Apollo delivered people from epidemics, yet he is also a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague with his arrows. the invention of archery itself is credited to Apollo and his sister Artemis. Apollo is usually described as carrying a silver or golden bow and a quiver of silver or golden arrows. Apollo's capacity to make youths grow is one of the best attested facets of his panhellenic cult persona. As a protector of the young, Apollo is concerned with the health and education of children. He presided over Their passage into adulthood. Long hair, which was the prerogative of boys, was cut at the coming of age and dedicated to Apollo.
Apollo is an important pastoral deity, and was the patron of herdsmen and shepherds. Protection of herds, flocks and crops from diseases, pests and predators were his primary duties. On the other hand, Apollo also encouraged founding new towns and establishment of civil constitution. He is associated with dominion over colonists. He was the giver of laws, and his oracles were consulted before setting laws in a city.
As the god of mousike, or music, (The art of the Muses) was an integral part of life in the ancient Greek world, and the term covered not only music but also dance, lyrics, Theater and the performance of poetry. Apollo presides over all music, songs, dance and poetry. He is the inventor of string-music, and the frequent companion of the Muses, functioning as Their chorus leader in celebrations. the lyre is a common attribute of Apollo. In Hellenistic times, especially during the 5th century BC, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, the personification of the Sun.[2] In Latin texts, however, There was no conflation of Apollo with Sol among the classical Latin poets until 1st century BC.[3] Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 5th century BC.
References
- ↑ Krauskopf, I. 2006. "The Grave and Beyond." The Religion of the Etruscans. edited by N. de Grummond and E. Simon. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. vii, p. 73-75.
- ↑ For the iconography of the Alexander–Helios type, see H. Hoffmann, 1963. "Helios", in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 2, pp. 117–23; cf. Yalouris 1980, no. 42.
- ↑ Joseph Fontenrose, "Apollo and Sol in the Latin poets of the first century BC", Transactions of the American Philological Association 30 (1939), pp 439–55; "Apollo and the Sun-God in Ovid", American Journal of Philology 61 (1940) pp 429–44; and "Apollo and Sol in the Oaths of Aeneas and Latinus" Classical Philology 38.2 (April 1943), pp. 137–138.