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	apollo - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apllōn) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt).
		Apollo is considered to have dominion over the plague, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism and as the patron defender of herds and flocks.
		Apollo, the eternal beardless youth himself, had the most male lovers of all the Greek gods, as could be expected from a god who was god of the palaestra, the athletic gathering place for youth, who all competed in the nude.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/apollo (2316 words)

	Ancient Greek Religion: TITLES OF APOLLON
		Apollo was afterwards propitiated by the introduction of the worship of Apollo Carneius.
		LOE′MIUS (Loimios), the deliverer from plague (Loimos), was a surname of Apollo at Lindus in Rhodes.
		THEOXE′NIUS (Theoxenios), a surname of Apollo and Hermes.
	www.theoi.com /Cult/ApollonTitles.html (3064 words)

	APOLLO FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities.
		Apollo is considered to have dominion over the plague, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism, Shamans, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks.
		In his youth, Apollo killed the vicious dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring, according to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.This was the spring which emitted vapors that caused the Oracle at Delphi to give her prophesies.
	www.abait.com /Apollo (3358 words)

	Calamis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Pausanias (9.16.1), Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar, and at 9.22.1 mentions a Hermes Criophorus for Tanagra, which was later depicted on Roman coinage of the city.
		His status of Apollo Alexikakos stood in the Ceramicus of Athens.
		He produced his most ambitious work, a 30-cubit statue of Apollo for Apollonius Pontica (Pliny the Elder 34.29, Strabo 7.319).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calamis (170 words)

	Apollo - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
		Apollo was considered to have dominion over disease, beauty, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism, and shamans, and was the patron defender of herds and flocks.
		Apollo was attributed the epithet Musagetes as the leader of the muses, and Nymphegetes as "nymph-leader".
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Apollo (3882 words)

	Apollo - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		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.
		Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Apollo (5166 words)

	Apollo - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In Roman mythology he is known as Apollo and increasingly, especially during the third century, as Apollo Helios he became identified with Sol, the Sun.In Hellenistic times, Apollo became conflated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon.
		In his youth, Apollo killed the vicious dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.This was the spring which emitted vapors that caused the Oracle at Delphi to give her prophesies.
		It was also said that Apollo rode on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans during the winter months, a swan that he also lent to his beloved Hyacinthus to ride.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Apollo (4076 words)

	Apollo and the Romans
		Apollo’s "persona shifts from the mercilessly destructive to the graciously beneficial" [14].
		In the Iliad, it is Apollo who intervenes to check the hubristic onslaughts of the Greek warriors [16]; and in the theomachy that Zeus stages for his own entertainment, Apollo refuses to join in the frivolous fighting [17].
		Four statues, four different Apollos [33], four that had played roles in the politics and propaganda at the end of Roman Republic, culminating in the Apollo that symbolised the Golden Age of Rome.
	janusquirinus.org /essays/Apollo/MultifacetedGod.html (1212 words)

	Apollo (god) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		As the patron of Delphi ("Delphic Apollo") Apollo is an oracular god; in Classical times he took the place of Helios as god of the sun.
		Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
		Apollo was born on the seventh day (ἡβδομαγενης) of the month Thargelion —according to Delian tradition— or of the month Bysios— according to Delphian tradition.
	en.explicatus.org /wiki/Apollo_(god) (5129 words)

	Strabo Geography 9.3 Apollo and Melody
		Apollo is Abaddon or Apollyon: the Muses serve him and are the locusts or musical performers of Revelation.
		Of the Greek festivals in honour of Apollo, the most curious was the octennial Delphic Stepterion, in which a boy reenacted the slaying of the Python and was temporarily banished to the
		In Italy Apollo was introduced at an early date and was primarily concerned, as in Greece, with
	www.piney.com /Strabo.Geog.9.3.1.html (3977 words)

	Ancient Greek Religion: CULT OF APOLLON 1
		And in front of the temple is one Apollon made by Leokhares; the other Apollo, called Alexikakos (Averter of evil), was made by Kalamis.
		In the old gymnasium near the gate called the Gate of the Nymphai is a stone of the shape of a small pyramid.
		For wolves once so preyed upon their flocks that there was no longer any profit therefrom, and the god, mentioning a certain place where lay a dry log, gave an oracle that the bark of this log mixed with meat was to be set out for the beasts to eat.
	www.theoi.com /Cult/ApollonCult.html (3177 words)

	The Art of the Greeks
		An influential sculptor from Eleutherae in Boeotia, Myron (c.480-455bc) was a student of Agelades of Argos, The dynamic linear style of his work in bronze contrasted with the solidity of Kalamis1 work.
		His Apollo (Kassel version) differs from Kalamis' Apollo Alexikakos in the broad structure of the body and the crisp outline.
		After studying bronze-working with Aegios in Athens and Agelades in Argos, he was the probable creator of The Apollo Parnopios (Kassel version).
	www.all-art.org /history52-2.html (2062 words)

	CNL: It's All Geek To Me
		Apollo is connected to health and healing in several ways.
		Although neither Apollo or the Muses were directly involved in smithcraft, Apollo was associated with the light of the sun, which of course carries heat with it.
		The ability of fire to strengthen and purify metals as a flsmith does when he/she creates a sword is mirrored in the modern-day use of the phrase "baptism of fire." Apollo's son Asclepius was in fact born in the midst of fire.
	www.compostcoven.org /cnl/brigida.html (1462 words)

	Planetary Mythology - Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In Greek mythology, Apollo was the solar god, the god of the light.
		Apollo used his powers of destruction to protect the mice from infesting the fields and drove locusts away to prevent the lost of harvests.
		"Apollo was thought of as an archer-god who shot his arrows from afar (Hecatebolos) as the god of sudden death; but also as a healer-god who drove away illness (Alexikakos)." (Lindermans 119-120)
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h453proj/planets1/sun.html (356 words)

	Apollo - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Alexikakos, ("restrainer of evil"), as Apollo the healer.
		Following a spirited chase by Apollo, Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her and he changed her into a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
		Apollo and Hyacinthus, read by Timothy Carter" class="a-lk">1.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=594 (2165 words)

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