Apollo Olympian god of the sun. Son of
Leto (daughter of the Titans Coeus and
Phoebe) and Zeus. Brother of Artemis, god-
dess of the moon and the search. Apollo appears at some stage in Homer’s Iliad. Additional classical sources are the Homeric Hymn to Apollo,Apollodorus’s Library (1.Three.2, 1.4.1, three.10.2),
Euripides’ Ion, Hesiod’s Theogony (ninety four–95,
346), Homer’s Odyssey (eight.226ff), Horace’s Odes
(1.31), Hyginus’s Fabulae (forty nine–fifty one, 53), Ovid’s
Metamorphoses (1.439–568, 6.382–400,
eleven.153–171), and Pindar’s Pythian Odes (I, 3.1–
forty seven, 4.176ff, eight.12ff, nine.1–70).
Apollo’s domain names are the humanities, song, medi-
cine, and prophecy. Apollo is “Phoebus,” that means “bright,” which remembers the name of
his maternal grandmother
