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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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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.4.2

• Hesiod: Theogony 920

• Homeric Hymn 3a.1
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Domain

• Hesiod: Theogony 90

• Pindar: Pythian 5.63

• Homeric Hymn 25.1

• Homeric Hymn 3a.1

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Arsinoe or Coronis -> Aesculapius: Apollodorus 3.10.4, Pausanias 7.23.8, Pausanias 2.26.4, Pausanias 2.26.7, Pindar: Pythian 3.1, Pindar: Pythian 3.8, Pindar: Pythian 3.15, Pindar: Pythian 3.24, Pindar: Pythian 3.31, Pindar: Pythian 3.38, Pindar: Pythian 3.47, Pindar: Pythian 3.54, Homeric Hymn 16.1

• Bolina: Pausanias 7.23.4

• Calliope -> Linus and Orpheus: Apollodorus 1.3.3

• Cyrene -> Aristaeus: Pindar: Pythian 9.17, Pindar: Pythian 9.26, Pindar: Pythian 9.34, Pindar: Pythian 9.42, Pindar: Pythian 9.51, Pindar: Pythian 9.59, Pindar: Pythian 9.67

• Daphne: Pausanias 8.20.4

• Hyacinth: Apollodorus 1.3.3, Apollodorus 3.10.4, Pausanias 3.19.5

• Manto -> Mopsus: Apollodorus e.6.4

• Melia -> Tenerus and Ismenus: Pausanias 9.10.5

• Phythia -> Dorus, Laodocus, and Polypoetes: Apollodorus 1.7.6

• Psamathe: Pausanias 1.43.7

• Thalia -> the Corybantes: Apollodorus 1.3.4

Other Encounters

• Achaeans: Homer: Iliad 1.10, Homer: Iliad 1.33

• Achilles: Apollodorus e.5.3

• Admetus: Apollodorus 1.9.15

• Aeneas: Homer: Iliad 5.430

• Ares and Hermes: Pausanias 5.7.10

• Argonauts: Apollodorus 1.9.26

• Cassandra: Apollodorus 3.12.6

• Cyclopes: Apollodorus 3.10.5

• Ephialtes: Apollodorus 1.6.2

• Hector: Homer: Iliad 7.270, Homer: Iliad 22.200

• Heracles: Apollodorus 2.4.11, Apollodorus 2.6.2, Pausanias 3.21.8, Pausanias 10.13.7

• Hermes: Apollodorus 3.10.3, Pausanias 9.30.1, Pausanias 7.20.4, Homeric Hymn 4.1
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• Hestia: Homeric Hymn 5.1, Homeric Hymn 24.1

• Laocoon: Apollodorus e.5.18

• Laomedon: Apollodorus 2.5.10, Homer: Iliad 7.445, Homer: Iliad 21.435

• Linus: Pausanias 9.29.6

• Marpessa: Apollodorus 1.7.9

• Marsyas: Apollodorus 1.4.2, Herodotus: 7.27.1

• Melampus: Apollodorus 1.9.11

• Niobe: Apollodorus 3.5.6, Homer: Iliad 24.605

• Philoctetes: Apollodorus e.3.27

• Poseidon: Pausanias 10.5.6, Pausanias 2.33.1

• Python: Apollodorus 1.4.2, Pausanias 2.7.7, Pausanias 10.6.7, Homeric Hymn 3b.1
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Also see Apollo images.

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