who was the greek god apollo?

Answer 1

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.

As the patron of Delphi ("Pythian Apollo") Apollo is an oracular god; in Classical times he took the place of Helios as god of the sun. Apollo was also considered to have dominion over colonists, over medicine, mediated through his son Asclepius, and was the patron defender of herds and flocks.

Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of the chaste huntress Artemis, who took the place of Selene as goddess of the moon. As the prophetic deity of the Delphic oracle, Apollo was one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. In Roman mythology he is known as Apollo and increasingly, especially during the third century BC, as Apollo Helios he became identified with Sol, the Sun
Unusual among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi. In cult practice, Delian Apollo and Pythian Apollo (the Apollo of Delphi) were so distinct that they might both have shrines in the same locality.[2] Theophoric names such as Apollodorus or Apollonios and cities named Apollonia are met with throughout the Greek world. Apollo's cult was already fully established when written sources commence, ca 700 BCE.

Answer 2

Apollo, son of Zeus, was the Greek god of sun, light, clarity & truth.

Answer 3

Probably not Hellenic. He was on the side not of the Greeks but of the Trojans, foe of the "bronze-clap" warriors besieging Troy. he was originally from the island of Delos or plains of Asian Minor. Not a sun god. Maybe a wolf god who protect groves and trees (laurel). He was Hekatebolos, "the shooter from afar." God of Revelation.

Answer 4

He was the greek god of sun and war

Answer 5

The Greek god Apollo was the god of light, order, arts and muses, reason, prophecy. He was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis. He is represented as a young and handsome man, sometimes in a chariot, given to him by his father, Zeus. He was four days old when he demanded a bow and arrow. Hephaestus created them for him.

He immediately went in pursuit of the serpent that Hera sent to torment his mother, Leto. The serpent, Python, sought refuge at Dephi. But Apollo followed it into the shrine of the Oracle of Mother Earth and killed him.

Gaia was of course furious with the defilement of her shrine. Yet after Apollo was purified for his crime in Crete, he learned the art of prophecy (perhaps from Pan, the goat-legged god of flock and herd).

In any case, he took over the Oracle at Dephi and became closely associated with the art of prophecy since. Almost all seers soon claimed to have been either taught of fathered by him.

Greek god Apollo was originally a herdsman, but he later returned these duties to Hermes in exchange for some musical instruments Hermes created. He was so good at it that he soon became god of music. Some even credit greek god Apollo with having invented the cithara .

Apollo was only challenged once for his musical talents. A satyr name Marsays once found a flute made from the bones of a stag. ( Athena had made this flute, but had angrily thrown it away when the other gods laughed at her when she puffed her cheeks to play it).

Still inspired by Athena, the flute play rapturous music. Listeners even compared the satyr's playing to Apollo's playing of the lyre.

This comparison enraged Apollo, who immediately challenged Marsyas to a contest. They agreed that the winner can choose any punishment for the loser. The jury of Muses found both players magnificient. So Apollo challenged Marsyas to turn his instrument upside-down and play it and sing while playing it. Marsyas, of course, could not do it since his was a flute.

The Muses judged Apollo as the winner. However, Apollo was quite brutal with the punishment, he skinned the satyr alive and nailed his skin to a pine tree.

Apollo never married but fathered more than a dozen children by at least nine partners. Apollo was most persistent in courting Daphne , a mountain nymph. He first eliminated his competition, Lecippus, son of King Oenomaus of Pisa. Lecippus disguised himself as a girl to be with Daphne when she was revelling with other nymphs in the mountains. Apollo quietly advised the nymphs to bathe naked. When Lecippus was exposed, the nymphs tore him to shreds.

Though Apollo alone now wooed her, Daphne still refused him. She ultimately change into a laurel tree to avoid him. Thereafter, Apollo made the laurel tree his sacred plant.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

The son(sun) of Zeus who gave him the job of pulling the sun around the earth in a chariot

Answer 8

God of the Sun

Answer 9

He was the sun God who brought out the sun in the morning by pulling it with his mighty chariot.

Answer 10

HELIOS was the god of the sun. mysteriousgirl1984 hit the nail right on the head.