Phoebus Apollo (Olympian God)

Apollo

• The Greek god Apollo was the son of Zeus and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt and the moon first list item here
• Leto, Apollos mother, was a Titan goddess

Powers

• The God of music
• Archer (far shooting with a silver bow)
• The God of healing (giving the science of medicine to man)
• The God of light (One of Apollo's most important daily tasks was to harness his four-horse chariot, in order to move the Sun across the sky)
• The God of truth

Symbols

• Bow and Arrows
• Lyre
• Raven
• Wolf
• Laurel Tree

Myths

• He is a healing god, a power he transmitted to his son Asclepius. Asclepius exploited his ability to heal by raising men from the dead. Zeus punished him by striking him with a fatal thunderbolt. Apollo retaliated by killing the Cyclops, who had created the thunderbolt.

Why this Greek God?

• I was very curious of Apollo's background.

Sources

• http://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Apollo/apollo.html
• http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/p/Apollo.htm
• http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/greek-gods/apollo.htm