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 Knowledge King - Apollo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Apollo ("destroy" or "excite"), is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt).
Apollo was considered to have dominion over the sun, plague, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery (not for war or hunting), poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism and as the patron defender of herds and flocks.
As a young man, 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.
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 Alternate uses Apollo program Apollo program for others see Apollo...
Apollo was known as the leader of the Muses Muses ("musagetes") and director of their choir.
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, the athletic gathering place for youth, who all competed in the nude.
Apollo and the Birth of Hermes Hermes Hermes was born on Mt.
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 Apollo, Greece, Greek mythology
In many ways, Apollo personified the perfect man according to ancient Greek standards: he would entertain the other gods by playing the lyre, and he was also a brilliant archer and runner, considered to be the first winner at the Olympic Games.
There are several stories about Apollo as a man desperately in love, avenging the women who will not return his feelings: Cassandra was cursed to never be believed when she saw terrible things in the future, Daphne had to become a tree to escape him and he abandoned princess Creusa of Athens and their child.
In the story of the young man Hyacinthos Apollo accidentily kills his young lover with a discus, and is then transformed into the flower with the same name, where the letters AI AI can be read as the gods lament.
www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/apollo.htm   (439 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group to be discovered.
The largest known Apollo asteroid is 1866 Sisyphus, with a diameter of about 10 km.
Apollo asteroid, Mars-crosser asteroid Orbital elements C Epoch August 18, 2005 (JD 2453600.5) Eccentricity (e) 0.280 Semi-major axis (a) 198.044 G m (1.324 AU) Perihelion (q) 142.568 Gm (0.953 AU) Aphelion (Q) 253.520...
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 Apollo
Apollo was originally conceived late in the Eisenhower administration as a follow-on to Mercury for advanced earth-orbital missions.
Apollo 2 through Apollo 6 were unmanned test flights; the Apollo 1 designation was applied to the originally planned first manned flight which ended in a disastrous fire during a launch pad test that killed three astronauts.
Apollo 15 introduced a new level of lunar exploration capability, with a long-stay-time LM and a lunar roving vehicle.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Pausanias: Description of Greece, Book II: Corinth
Moreover near Peirene are an image and a sacred enclosure of Apollo; in the latter is a painting of the exploit of Odysseus against the suitors.
Behind the sanctuary of Hera he built an altar to Pan, and one to Helius (Sun) made of white marble.[2.11.2] On the way down to the plain is a sanctuary of Demeter, said to have been founded by Plemnaeis as a thank-offering to the goddess for the rearing of his son.
Apollo has a naked wooden image of native workmanship, but Artemis is dressed, and so, too, is Dionysus, who is, moreover, represented with a beard.
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 Articles - Clarus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Clarus (Greek Klaros) in the territory of Colophon in the Ionian coast of Asia Minor was a much-revered, much-famed cult center described by Pausanias (vii.
Clarus was known throughout the Mediterranean for its oracle, who delivered her prophesies in a dark crypt-like adyton under the Temple of Apollo, honored here as Apollo Clarius ("The Apollo of Clarus").
Aboveground, there remains the base and fragments of the colossal sculptures of a seated Apollo with his lyre, accompanied by Leto and Artemis, facing to the east.
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 GLOSSARY
The Apollo worshipped at Clarus (near Colophon) was worshipped elsewhere as Apollo Clarius.
A son of Apollo who was educated by the centaur, Chiron, and became a great healer.
A city on the north shore of the Mediterranean Sea and on the shore of the Eurymedon River in ancient Pamphylia (modern Turkey).
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 Pausanias Description of Greece, Book II: Corinth
When Adrastus returned to Argos, Ianiscus, a descendant of Clytius the father-in-law of Lamedon, came from Attica and was made king, and when Ianiscus died he was succeeded by Phaestus, said to have been one of the children of Heracles.
On the death of Zeuxippus, Agamemnon led an army against Sicyon and king Hippolytus, the son of Rhopalus, the son of Phaestus.
Meltas, the son of Lacedas, the tenth descendant of Medon, was condemned by the people and deposed altogether from the kingship.
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 Arnobius: Adversus Nationes Liber I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Delius Apollo vel Clarius, Didymaeus, Philesius, Pythius et hic habendus divinus est, qui aut summum imperatorem nescit aut ignorat a nobis cotidianis ei precibus supplicari?
Nonne cogitatio vos subit considerare, disquirere in cuia possessione versemini, cuia in re sitis, cuius ista sit quam fatigatis terra, cuius aer iste quem vitali reciprocatis spiritu, cuius abutamini fontibus, cuius liquore, quis ventorum disposuerit flamina, quis undosas excogitaverit nubes, quis se
Indigetes illi qui flumen repunt et in alveis Numici cum ranis et pisciculis degunt Aesculapius et Liber pater, Coronide ille natus et ex genitalibus matris alter fulmine praecipitatus; Mercurius utero fusus Maiae et, quod est divinius, candidae; 4.
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 Ancient coinage of Bithynia
Colonia Julia Concordia Apamea Augusta, Decurionum Decreto; C. Types: Dolphin; Head of Hermes; Diana Lucifera; Apollo Clarius APOLLINI CLAR.
AE, Types: Trophy; Lyre; Heads of Apollo and Artemis; Heads of Demeter and Apollo; Poseidon seated, andc.
§ 10); Apollo seated on swan or on tripod; Lyre; Tripod entwined by serpent; Poseidon; Hermes; Herakles reclining; ΑΝΤΙΝΟΟC ΗΡΩC Bust of Antinoüs, rev.
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 Clarius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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The name is derived from Clarus near Colophon where Apollo had a temple.
Article created on 04 May 1997; last modified on 04 May 1997.
www.pantheon.org /articles/c/clarius.html   (43 words)

  
 THE GODS AND GODDESSES OF ROMAN BRITAIN
Housesteads: altar recording the oracle of Clarian Apollo in Ionia by cohors I Tungrorum.
RIB 1083, at the expense of the tribune Flavius Titianus (with Numen Augusti)
Genius collegii Apollinis (Genius of the college of Apollo)
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 Apollo : Apollo Clarius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Apollo : Apollo Clarius
Apollo : Apollo Clarius
article at Free Euro Online Encyclopedia
It uses material from the wikipedia article Apollo : Apollo Clarius.
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 Apollo : Clarius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Apollo : Clarius
Apollo : Clarius
article at Free Euro Online Encyclopedia
It uses material from the wikipedia article Apollo : Clarius.
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 Eric Kondratieff's Corinth Project: West Terrace Temples-2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Fortunately, we can deduce from epigraphic and numismatic evidence that temples G and F are dedicated to the Imperial cults and Venus Victrix respectively.
Meanwhile, we get the impression of a crowd of statues in the west end of the Forum standing just below the terrace, from which Pausanias picks and describes the most remarkable: an Apollo Clarius in bronze, and an Aphrodite by Hermogenes, both of which were produced before the advent of Rome in the Greek mainland.
To see Scranton's and Williams' take on Pausanias' route, click
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 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francis Rabelais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ammon; of Apollo in Lebadia, Delphos, Delos, Cyrra, Patara, Tegyres,
crime of having interrogated the oracle of Apollo Clarius, to understand if
Dina-ditch within that grove consecrated to Apollo which is in the
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