deity

Apollo

Beings

A Greek god of the lyre, plague, and the oracle at Delphi. Healing and harm sit in the same cult without cancelling each other.

Also known as Apollon

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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  • 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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