Apollo

Hellenic religion

• Apollo is sacred to Delphi.

  Pausanias’s Delphi is Apollo’s oracular house. The god and the slope belong together in that travel-book.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Apollo is associated with Oracle.

  The Pythia answers in Apollo’s name. That is a Greek civic institution, not Ifá and not a raven’s cry.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Apollo is associated with Prophecy.

  Delphic answers are one famous Greek form of prophecy. The seat, the cost, and the god are local.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Apollo is connected to Hermes.

  The Homeric hymn has Hermes steal Apollo’s cattle and then settle with him. The two gods share a poem of bargaining, not an identity.

  from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Hermes, c. 6th–5th century BCE

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• Apollo is associated with Healing.

  Greek Apollo can send plague and also be asked for its stopping. Harm and help sit in one cult without becoming Asklepios.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Apollo is associated with Serpent.

  Pausanias records a serpent at Delphi slain so the oracle could be established. Apollo’s house is founded against a local snake, not Asklepios’s tame one.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Apollo appears in Delphi.

  The Homeric Hymn to Apollo tells of the god’s taking of a Delphic seat and of a serpent slain there. The poem is a Greek foundation-story, not Pausanias’s later walk, though they share a slope.

  from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Apollo, c. 7th–6th century BCE

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• Apollo appears in Hellenic religion.

  The Iliad opens with Apollo’s plague among the Achaeans and seats him among Trojan helpers with bow and paean. A named Apollo in that epic, not a sun-identity flatten and not Delphi as the only house.

  from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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• Asklepios is connected to Apollo.

  Greek tradition makes Asklepios Apollo’s son in some tellings. The healing god and the oracular god are kin in story, not one cult.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Delphic tripod is sacred to Apollo.

  Pausanias describes the tripod at Delphi as Apollo’s oracular seat-furniture. A named tripod of that god, not the omphalos, and not every later three-legged stand.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Omphalos is sacred to Apollo.

  Pausanias reports the omphalos at Delphi as Apollo’s navel-stone. A named stone of that god, not Benben, not the Delphic tripod, and not generic stone.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Laurel wreath mark is sacred to Apollo.

  Pausanias’s Delphic and Pythian speech seats the laurel crown among Apollo’s victory and honor marks at the sanctuary. A named laurel-wreath-mark sacred to Apollo in that periegesis, not olive-branch-mark as the olive twin and not laurel as the plant alone.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Roman religion

• Apollo appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats Apollo at Delos, Cumae, and Actium prophecy among Aeneas’s guidance. A named Apollo in that epic, not Asklepios as healer and not a Delphic dump alone.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Egyptian religion

• Apollo is historically related to Horus.

  Herodotus pairs Egyptian Horus with Greek Apollo in the Egyptian logos — an interpretatio claim, not a merger. A named historically_related_to meeting beside apollo hellenic appears_in already held by other sources.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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• Apollo is associated with Bacchus.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, Apollo and Father Bacchus are to be seated near the theatre — Apollo shares that theatre-side site with Bacchus.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Apollo is associated with Diana.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, a temple of Apollo and Diana is cited for the intercolumniation danger when architraves may break across great intervals — Apollo shares that temple span with Diana.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Hercules is associated with Apollo.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, Apollo and Bacchus are near the theatre while Hercules is at the circus where there are no gymnasia — Hercules is seated in the same temple-site plan as Apollo.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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