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Apollo is associated principally with music, prophecy, sickness, and medicine. He is also known as Phoebus Apollo and is called the Far Shooter and the Pythian. (He has no separate Roman name.) His attributes in iconography are the cithara, or sometime the lyre, the bow, the fawn, and the tripod. He is often depicted with his sister, Artemis.

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Images

Ancient Sources

• Birth of Athene: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Apollo, Athene, and Hermes: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Birth of Athene: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Hermes, Artemis, Apollo, Leto, and Poseidon: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Apollo and Herakles struggling for the Tripod: Image
  Andokides Painter, ca 530-520 BC, MM

• Apollo and Artemis attacking giants: Large image, 50% image
  Treasury of the Siphnians in Delphi: Gigantomachy, ca 525 BC, AS

• Aphrodite, Artemis, and Apollo: Large image, 50% image
  Olympian Gods in council--the pro-Trojan faction
  Treasury of the Siphnians in Delphi, ca 525 BC, AS

• Heracles and Apollo struggle for possession of the oracular tripod: Image
  Treasury of the Siphnians: Delphi, ca 525 BC, AS

• Herakles and Apollo struggling for the Tripod: Large image, 50% image
  Painter of Tarquinia, ca 520 BC, MM

• Apollo and Artemis: Image
  Pan Painter, ca 490 BC, MM

• Apollo: Image
  Berlin Painter, ca 490 BC, MM

• Apollo of Piombino: Large image, 50% image
  Late Archaic: ca 480 BC, AS

• Apollo and the Muses: Image
  Thasos: relief, ca 480 BC, MM

• Apollo at an altar: Overview, Detail
  Info, Early Classical

• Apollo and Artemis: Overview, Detail
  Info, Early Classical

• Apollo standing: Overview, Detail
  Info, Early Classical

• Apollo and Python on omphalos: Image
  Attic lekythos, ca 470 BC, MM

• The Chatsworth Apollo: Image
  ca 470-460 BC, MM

• Apollo and a Muse: Image
  Attic kylix, ca 460 BC, MM

• Seated Apollo: Image
  Sotades workshop, ca 460 BC, MM

• Apollo and Artemis: Large image, 50% image
  Niobid Painter, ca 460-450 BC, MM

• Artemis, Apollo, and Hermes: Image
  Barclay Painter, ca 450-440, MM

• Orestes purified by Apollo: Large image, 50% image
  Eumenides Painter, ca 390-380 BC, MM

• Apollo before his temple: Image
  Painter of the Birth of Dionysos, ca 380-370 BC, MM

• Apollo Sauroctonos: Large image, 50% image
  Praxiteles, ca 360-350 BC, MM

• Orestes at Delphi: Overview, Detail
  Info, Late Classical

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Late Classical

• Belvedere Apollo: Image
  4th century, Roman copy, VM

• Musical contest of Apollo and Marsyas: Image
  Praxiteles, ca 320 BC, MM

• Slaying of the Niobids by Apollo and Artemis: Image
  sarcophagus relief (Roman copy), Hellenistic, AS

• Coin: Reverse
  Info, Hellenistic

Later Representations in Art

• Apollo: Image
  Sansovino, Andrea, 1502, MM

• Apollo: Image
  Caraglio, Gian Jacopo, 1526, MM

• Apollo and Marsyas: Image
  Tintoretto, 1545, MM

• Apollo and Daphne: Image
  Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1622-1625, MM

Also see Apollo texts.

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