Blessing:
Apollo's blessings are beauty, healing, justice, strength, artistic and athletic skill, as well as prophecy. He helps people to find ways to become better than they are. He heals all ailments - spiritual as well as physical. He punishes unjust acts, yet helps those who have committed them to find redemption and purification. He inspires the best work by poets and sculptors, atheletes and scientists. He communicates to man the will of his father, Zeus, making known what was hidden. Above all he preaches the Hellenic ideal of moderation and nothing to excess.
Epithets:
Agreus (Hunter), Aguieus (Guardian of Streets), Aigletes (Radiant), Akesios (Healer), Alasiotas (of Cyprus), Alexikalos (Who Wards off Evil), Apotropaios (Averter of Evil), Aristaios (Best), Arkhegetes (Leader of Colonies), Daphnephoros (Bay-Bearer), Delios (Delian), Delphinios (of the Dolphins), Delphic, Epikourios (Helper, Ally), Genetor (Begetter, Ancestor), Hekatos (Far-Darter), Hersos (New Born, Divine Child), Hyperborean (of the Far North), Iatros (Doctor), Ismenios (of Ismenos), Karneios (of the Karneia), Kitharodos (Singer to the Lyre), Kourotrophos (Protector of Youth), Leukatas (of the Light) Loxias (the Oblique), Lukeios (of the Wolf), Maleatas (Healer) Musagetes (Leader of the Muses), Nomios (Herdsman, Shepherd) Paian (alternate name), Patroos (Ancestral), Phoibos (Bright), Puthios (Pythian, slayer of Pytho), Smintheus (of the Mouse)
Symbols:
lyre, bow, tripod, the sun
Animal(s):
crow, wolf, dolphin, mouse
Sacrifices: bay, laurel, vine, rush, sunflower, amber, hyacinth, frankincense, olibanum, aloe
Primary Cult Center(s):
Delos, Delphi
Festivals:
Boedromia: 7 Boedromion (September-October)
Delphinia: 6 Mounikhion (April-May)
Metageitnia: 7 Metageitnion (August-September)
Hyakinthia: during Hekatombaion (July-August)
Karneia: 7-15 Metageitnion (August-September)
Nymphegetes: 8 Gamelion (January-February)
Puanepsia: 7 Puanepsion (October-November)
Pythian Games: Metageitnion, 3rd year of the Olympiad
Thargelia: 6-7 Thargelion (May-June)
7th day of the month
Ways to honor:
Live excellently. Don't shirk your responsibilities, or do things you know are wrong. Put your core values into practice: don't just preach it, live it. Cultivate the arts. Write, draw, paint, dance, play an instrument, sculpt or support those who do. Read philosophers, and try to think outside the box. Learn and practice a form of divination. Live healthfully. Exercise. Take an interest in what you eat and how it affects your body. Visit the sick. Donate time or money to AIDS or cancer research and treatment or other health concerns.
For more information:
Aeschylus' Agamemnon 1202-1212
Aeschylus' Eumenides
Apollodorus' Library 1.3.2-4, 1.4.1-2, 1.7.8-9, 1.9.15, 2.5.9, 2.6.2, 3.10.1-4, 3.12.5
Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica 2.500-520, 2.946-953, 4.6.11-618
Euripides' Orestes, Electra, Iphigeneia among the Taurians, Ion
Hesiod's Catalogues of Women 63-64, 83, 88-93, 98
Hesiod's Shield of Heracles 68-69, 477-480
Hesiod's Theogony 94-95, 346-348
Homer's Iliad 1.10, 1.33, 5.430, 7.270, 7.445, 21.435, 22.200,
Homer's Odyssey 8.226-228, 15.243-253
Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3a, 3b, 21, 25
Homeric Hymn to Hermes 4
Hyginus' Fabulae 9-10, 28, 32, 49-51, 107, 135, 140, 165, 191, 200,
Ovid's Metamorphoses 1.438-567, 1.750-2.400, 2.535-632, 6.204-266, 6.382-400, 11.153-171, 11.303-345, 14.129-153, 10.162-219, 10.106-142
Papyri Graeci Magicae 1.262-347, 4.1-47
Pausanias' Description of Greece 1.30.3, 1.42.2, 1.43.7-8, 2.26.4-7, 2.30.3, 2.33.2, 2.7.7, 5.14.8, 7.23.8, 8.20.4, 8.30.3-4, 9.10.5-6, 10.5.6, 10.6.7,
Pindar's Pythian Odes 3, 5, 9
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