in Greek mythology what was Apollo god of?

Answer 1

Apollo is referred to as god of the following:

1. god of medicine & healing
2. god of archery
3. god of death-bringing plague
4. leader of the Muses
5. director of the muses' choir
6. god of music
7. god of poetry
8. oracular god or god of prophecy
9. took the place of Helios as god of the sun
10. god of herds & flocks
11. god of colonization
12. god of harmony, order & reasons
13. god of the palaestra
14. master of the lyre
15. god of the bow
16. averter of evil
17. god of political life

Answer 2

In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων, Apóllōn; or Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros, was the archer-god of medicine and healing and also a bringer of death-dealing plague; as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) and director of their choir, he is a god of music and poetry. Hymns sung to Apollo were called Paeans.

Answer 3

In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo was the archer-god of medicine and healing and also a bringer of death-dealing plague; as the leader of the Muses and director of their choir, he is a god of music and poetry. Hymns sung to Apollo were called Paeans.

Answer 4

Apollo was the god of the sun yet also the god of music. The muses were seen pictured with him quite a bit.

Answer 5

He was not the god of the sun that was Helio, and Apollo was the greek god of music, medicine, and sports.

Answer 6

The Sun

Answer 7

in Greek religion, a deity of manifold function and meaning, the most widely revered and influential of all the Greek gods. Though his original nature is obscure, from the time of Homer onward he was the god of divine distance, who sent or threatened from afar; the god who made men aware of their own guilt and purified them of it; who presided over religious law and the constitutions of cities; who communicated to man through prophets and oracles his knowledge of the future and the will of his father, Zeus. Even the gods feared him, and only his father and his mother, Leto, could endure his presence. Distance, death, terror, and awe were summed up in his symbolic bow; a gentler side of his nature, however, was shown in his other attribute, the lyre, which proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus (the home of the gods) through music, poetry, and dance. In humbler circles he was also a god of crops and herds, primarily as a divine bulwark against wild animals and disease, as his epithet Alexikakos (Averter of Evil) indicates. His forename Phoebus means “bright” or “pure,” and the view became current that he was connected with the sun.

Among Apollo's other epithets was Nomios (Herdsman), and he is said to have served King Admetus of Pherae in the lowly capacities of groom and herdsman as penance for slaying Zeus's armourers, the Cyclopes. He was also called Lyceius, presumably because he protected the flocks from wolves (lykoi); because herdsmen and shepherds beguiled the hours with music, scholars have argued that this was Apollo's original role.

Answer 8

Apollo, twin brother of Artemis, was the god of light, god of sun, but also god of music, poetry and fine arts, god of cure and god of prophecy.

Answer 9

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A‧pol‧lo  /əˈpɒloʊ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-pol-oh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun, plural -los for 2, 3. 1. the ancient Greek and Roman god of light, healing, music, poetry, prophecy, and manly beauty; the son of Leto and brother of Artemis.
2. a very handsome young man.
3. Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to the moon and back.

Answer 10

God of the sun.