| Names: | Apollo; Phoebus; Paean; Loxias. |
| Epithets: | Far-shooting; Long-haired; Wolf-killer; Street-guard. Lat., Augur (Seer). |
| Powers: | Prophecy; poetry; music; medicine. |
| Attributes and symbols: | Bow and arrows; lyre; Delphic tripod; the omphalos - sacred stone of Delphi; laurel; raven; wolf. |
| Gifts to mortals: | Oracles; poetic inspiration; medical arts. |
| Origin: | Son of Zeus & Leto, twin of Artemis. Jealous Hera forbade all the lands to accomodate Leto in labor, and the pregnant goddess wandered until the newly-formed island Delos allowed her delivery. |
| Loves: | Daphne (=Laurel); Cassandra; Lat., Sibyl; Hyacinthus; Cyrene; Coronis; Marpessa, et al. |
| Spouse: | --- |
| Children: | Asclepius (by Coronis); Orpheus (by the Muse Calliope); Aristeus (by Cyrene), et al. |
| Chosen people/ places: | Hyperboreans (Far North). Delphi; Delos. |
| Pageant: | 9 Muses. |
| Allies/ favorites: | Hermes; Pan; Trojans; Admetus; Orestes. |
| Adversaries: | Heracles (fought with Apollo about the tripod); Tityos (attempted to rape Leto); Idas (successful rival for Marpessa). |
| Victims: | Daphne (turned into a laurel-tree); Cassandra (no one believed her); Hyacinth; children of Niobe; Achilles; Cyclopes - smiths; Marsyas (flayed alive); Oedipus (destroyed by the oracle). |
| Notes: | Shamanistic god? - Poet/ musician - physician - prophet; inspiration
as ecstatic possession by the spirit (which the chosen medium resists -
hence his unrequited loves); Delphic sanctuary = center of the universe.
The god of irony and tragedy. |