Apollo
Greek · deity · primordial · deity
The canonical merge case in the registry. Romans imported Apollo directly without renaming — Latin literature uses Apollo, not a translated form. No Italic precedent was renamed. The cult layered Roman institutional features on top of the imported Greek figure: Apollo Medicus at the Campus Martius temple (vowed 433 BCE during plague); Ludi Apollinares (instituted 212 BCE during Hannibalic War); Apollo Palatinus under Augustus (vowed 36 BCE, dedicated 28 BCE following Actium); Sibylline Books custody (transferred 12 BCE from Capitoline to Palatine). One entry, two traditions per the Pleiades-style data model. Per Beard/North/Price 1998; Gagé, Apollon Romain (1955); Miller, Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (2009).
Parentage
Children
Domains
- prophecy
- plague and healing
- music poetry
- archery
- augustan state patron
Powers
- Heal and avert pestilence
- Heal and avert pestilence
- Shoot plague-bearing arrows
- Grant and utter prophecy
Epithets
- Φοῖβος
- Λύκειος
- Λοξίας
- Μουσαγέτης
- Ἑκηβόλος
- Πύθιος
- Σμινθεύς
- Παιάν
- ἀργυρότοξος
- ἑκάεργος
- Δήλιος
- Νόμιος
Relations
- sibling: Hebe
- sibling: Ares
- sibling: Aeacus
- sibling: Athena
- sibling: Dionysus
- sibling: Hermes
- lover: Coronis
- lover: Manto
- lover: Evadne
- lover: Cyrene
- beloved: Hyacinthus
- lover: Creusa
- killer of: Tityus
- sibling: Artemis
- equated with: Horus
- interpretatio: Horus
- interpretatio: Resheph
- interpretatio: Nabu
- syncretism: Kendrisos, Rider-Patron of Philippopolis
- interpretatio: Sun-God Goitosyros