(Classical Myth & Legend)classical myththe god of light, poetry, music, healing, and prophecy: son of Zeus and Leto (əˈpɒləʊ) n (Astronautics) any of a series of manned US spacecraft designed to explore the moon and surrounding space.Apollo 11made the first moon landing in...
OKYRRHOE (Ocyrrhoe) A Naiad-nymph of the island of Samos (Greek Aegean) who was pursued by Apollon and refuge on a boat leaving the island. The wrathful god turned the boat to stone and the skipper into a pilot-fish. OTHREIS A nymph of Mt Othrys in Malis (northern Greece), who ...
(Classical Myth & Legend)classical myththe god of light, poetry, music, healing, and prophecy: son of Zeus and Leto (əˈpɒləʊ) n (Astronautics) any of a series of manned US spacecraft designed to explore the moon and surrounding space.Apollo 11made the first moon landing in...
For the MYTH of the god's attempted seduction of this nymph seeDAPHNE 2) IAMOS Seer of Olympos For the MYTH of the god's seduction of Iamos' mother see Apollo Loves: Euadne 3) ONKIOS Lord of Onkion Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 25. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd ...
god of light. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 28] See: Light Apollo (Phoebus) patron of medicine. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 28] See: Medicine Apollo god of music and fine arts. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 26] See: Music Apollo sun god; his chariot ride spanned morning to night. [Gk. Myth.: Bené...
Ares, in Greek religion, god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. Unlike his Roman counterpart, Mars, he was never very popular, and his worship was not extensive in Greece. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaughter. From at least the time of Homer...
Dionysus (Bacchus) – Greek God of Wine and Grape Harvest. Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. Hera (Juno) – Greek Goddess – Queen of the Gods. Hera was the wife of Zeus with whom she acquired Ares (Roman...
The Greek godApollowas the son ofZeusand the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt and the moon. In later periods, Apollo was commonly considered to have been the driver of the solar disc, but Apollo was notassociated with the sunduring Homeric Greek times. In this earlier period,...
Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god. However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus whic...
Apollo: god of music. Athena: goddess of military victory. He was a healer. She wore a helmet and carried a shield. On the surface, these Greek deities couldn’t be more different. When you start investigating their myths, however, the two have much more in common than you’d think. ...