pp vandalism small yes About the Greek and Roman god Apollo disambiguation and Phoebus disambiguation Distinguish Phobos mythology pp move small yes this article uses the BCE CE convention Infobox Greek deity Image Belvedere Apollo Pio Clementino Inv1015.jpg thumb right 220px Caption Apollo Belvedere , ca. 120 140 CE. Name Apollo God of God of music, poetry, plague, oracles, sun, medicine, light and knowledge Abode Mount Olympus Symbol Lyre , Bay Laurel laurel wreath, Python mythology python , raven , bow and arrows Consort Parents Zeus and Leto Siblings Artemis Children Asclepius , Troilus , Aristaeus , Orpheus Mount Roman equivalent Apollo Ancient Greek religion Apollo Attic Greek Attic , Ionic Greek Ionic , and Homeric Greek lang grc , Apoll n gen. lang grc Doric Greek Doric lang grc , Apell n Arcadocypriot Greek Arcadocypriot lang grc , Apeil n Aeolic Greek Aeolic lang grc , Aploun lang la Apoll is one of the most important and complex of the Twelve Olympians Olympian deities in Ancient Greek religion ancient Greek and Ancient Roman religion Roman religion , Hellenic neopaganism Greco Nova Roma Roman Neopaganism , and Greek mythology Greek and Roman mythology . The ideal of the kouros a beardless, athletic youth , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto , and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis . Apollo is known in Greek influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu . As the patron of Delphi Pythian Apollo , Apollo was an oracular god the prophetic deity of the Pythia Delphic Oracle . Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius , yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill health and deadly Plague disease plague . Amongst the god s custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over Colonies in antiq ... more details
this article has used the BC AD convention since 2001 pp semi indef pp move indef Infobox writing system name Greek alphabet type Alphabet languages Greek language Greek time 800 BC to the present sfn Swiggers 1996 p fam1 Proto Sinaitic alphabet fam2 Phoenician alphabet children Gothic alphabet Gothic br Glagolitic alphabet Glagolitic br Cyrillic script Cyrillic br Coptic alphabet Coptic br Armenian alphabet br Old Italic alphabet br Latin alphabet unicode http www.unicode.org charts PDF U0370.pdf U 0370&ndash U 03FF Greek and Coptic, br http www.unicode.org charts PDF U1F00.pdf U 1F00&ndash U 1FFF Greek Extended iso15924 Grek sample Greekalphabet.svg imagesize 250px note none SpecialChars Table Greekletters letter Image Dipylon Inscription.JPG thumb Dipylon inscription , one of the oldest known samples of the use of the Greek alphabet, ca. 740 BC The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC the 8th century BC . sfn Cook 1987 p 9 The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega . The Greek alphabet was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet , from which it differs by being the first alphabet that provides a full representation of one written symbol per sound both for vowel s as well as consonant s. The Greek alphabet in turn is the ancestor of numerous other European and Middle Eastern scripts that follow the same structural principle, among them Cyrillic script Cyrillic and Latin script Latin . sfn Coulmas 1996 p The Greek alphabet reached its classical form around 400 BC, with some details, including the use of diacritic marks, becoming fixed only during the following centuries of the Hellenistic period Hellenistic and Roman period . The sequence of letters has remained unchanged since then up to the present day, although the sound values of individual letters have changed considerably due to phonological changes between An ... more details
thumb 140px left Dipylon Kouros , Marble, 620 610 BC, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens File Dipylon vase.jpg thumb left 140px Dipylon vase of Geometric style ,750 BC The oldest known human ... more details
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