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Apollo

God of Light, Music, Healing, Prophecy, Poetry, Archery, Civilization, Plague, and the Sun. Leader of the Muses.

 

Twin brother to Artemis.

 

Roman name: Apollo

 

Parents: Leto and Zeus.

 

Spouse, lovers, children: Lover of many nymphs, goddesses, and mortal women, as well as a few mortal men. Father to Asclepius and many others.

 

Epithets: Phoebus (Bright One), Healer, Far Shooter, Foreseeing

 

Attributes: silver bow, laurel wreath, lyre

Apollo with Lyre, Palazzo Altemps, Rome

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