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Apollon
n.
(Greek Mythology) sun god and patron of music and poetry, son of Zeus and Leto, brother of Artemis (known as Apollo)
Apollon
Apollon may refer to:
- Apollo, ancient Greek god of light, healing and poetry
- Apollon (Formula One), Formula One constructor
- Apollon Kalamarias, Greek football club
- Apollon Athens, a Greek football club from Athens
- Apollon Limassol, Cypriot football club
- Apollon Musagète, a 1928 ballet by Igor Stravinsky
- Apollon (strongman) (1862–1928), famous 19th-century French strongman
- Apollon (ship), transatlantic luxury liner and cruise ship
- Dave Apollon (1898–1972), Russian mandolin player
- Apollon (GUI), a giFT front-end
- MV Navios Apollon, a Ultra-Handymax bulk carrier vessel
- Apollon Patras, a sporting club
Apollo
Apollo (
Attic,
Ionic, and
Homeric Greek: ,
Apollon ( );
Doric: ,
Apellon;
Arcadocypriot: ,
Apeilon;
Aeolic: ,
Aploun; ) is one of the most important and complex of the
Olympian deities in
classical Greek and
Roman religion and
Greek and
Roman mythology. The ideal of the
kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of
Zeus and
Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress
Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced
Etruscan mythology as
Apulu.
Apollo (ballet)
Apollon
nm.
Apollo, sun god and patron of music and poetry (Classical Mythology); series of US space crafts designed to land on the moon
Apollon
n.
(Greek Mythology) Apollon, sun god and patron of music and poetry, son of Zeus and Leto, brother of Artemis (known as Apollo); Apollo
Apollo
[Greek] The son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo was the god of music (principally the lyre, and he directed the choir of the Muses) and also of prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery (but not for war or hunting), poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks. He was also a god of light, known as "Phoebus" (radiant or beaming, and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god). He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus (from sminthos, rat) and as Parnopius (from parnops, grasshopper) and was known as the destroyer of rats and locust, and according to Homer's Iliad, Apollo shot arrows of plague into the Greek camp. Apollo being the god of religious healing would give those guilty of murder and other immoral deeds a ritual purification. Sacred to Apollo are the swan (one legend says that Apollo flew on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans, he would spend the winter months among them), the wolf and the dol...
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