Apollo - A son of Jupiterand god of the sun. Apollo was born at Delos and helps the Trojans in their voyage when they stop there. Because he is often portrayed as an archer, many characters invoke his name before they fire a shaft in battle. Characters from Homer’s Iliad Relevant to ...
Odysseus was a legendary hero in Greek mythology, king of the island of Ithaca and the main protagonist of Homer's epic, the Odyssey. He was also a pr...
the famed archer who had taught young Heracles how to draw a bow. Iphitus honored Odysseus with the gift of his father's bow, which Odysseus prized so highly that he refused to use it to hunt or to fight—with one notable exception some 30 years later. ...
The immobility of the Artemis of Delos (middle of the seventh century) and of the Hera of Samos (second quarter of the sixth century) was replaced by the conventional movement of the Nike of Delos (middle of the sixth century), attributed to Archermus. The sculptors, while making little ...
The archer constellation of Sagittarius is most usually depicted as a centaur and mythologically it is linked to both Chiron and a character called Krotos, who was a horse-legged satyr who lived with the mysterious Muses on Mount Helicon. He, like Apollo, was said to have invented the bow,...
In Greek mythology, centaurs were adventurous, brave, and wise; they were also given to brawling and uncivilized behavior. The glyph for Sagittarius is a straightforward one — it depicts the archer’s arrow slung in a bow. This glyph symbolizes the desire for direction, a higher purpose, ...
Greek and Roman mythology, which sought to explain their presence in the sky, but a few, such as Leo, the Lion, may be of much earlier origin. During the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries many new groupings were identified and named (and several later discarded), especially in the ...
There are two separate myths connected to the Archer, but both share themes of knowledge, art, and wisdom. The most well-known myth is that of Chiron, the centaur and revered teacher of many Greek heroes. Chiron was wise and skilled not only in the arts of war but also healing and phi...
In Addition to Athena, Apollo also plays an influential role in the Greek-Trojan War. Apollo is the most important divine supporter of the Trojans. Willcock tells us, "He is the archer god who strikes from afar, the god of disease and healing". Apollo's first intervention occurs after Ag...
Silver Siege Rhyton is unique for its depiction of a siege. The scene is only preserved on a portion of the rhyton, but a landscape of trees and a fortress wall are clearly recognizable. The figures in the scene appear to be in various positions, some men fight each other. An archer cr...