Apollo

or PHasus, was, in cla ical mythology, son of Zeus, or Jupiter, and Latona, Originally personification of the sun, he a umed in course time more complicated functions, presiding over poetry, eloquence, and medicine, besides the divine gift of prophecy. Shepherds, and founders of cities were under his special He had the title Pythias, because by his he freed his mother from the attacks of the His appearance, as conceived by painters sculptors, was that of a man in the prime of tall, beardle , exquisitely proportioned, carrying either a bow or a lyre. Parna us and were among his favourite haunts, but Delphi his true home, and his oracle there commanded many centuries the veneration of the world. He temples also in Delos, Claros, Tenedos, and and the Colo us at Rhodes was dedicated him. Artemis was his twin sister. In the carly of Rome there can be found no trace of divinity, but his worship was early introduced Greece, and became strongly rooted in the customs. The famous statue in the Belveof the Vatican, though not of the best period art, has furnished the popular idea of the god to generations. Apollo dor us, (1) a famous Greek painter who at Athens, about 408 B.c., and was a con of Zeuxis. (2) A learned grammarian of in the second century B.c. He was a of Aristarchus. (3) A great architect, born Damascus in 60 A.D. He built for Trajan the bridge over the Danube, and the column in Forum, besides other splendid works. He is to have,been put to death, by Hadrian in 130. A poll on i us, (1) of Rhodes, a Greek poet, who born at Alexandria or Naucratis, about 276 He is reputed to have been first the pupil and the rival of Call i mach us, who caused his to Rhodes. After uhe death of his enemy he to Egypt, and was made guardian of the libary of Alexandria. Only one of his works come down to us, viz. the Argonautic a, an epic four books, from which Virgil borrowed. He about 186. (2) Of Tyana, in Cappadocia, a of the first Christian century, who to have combined mysticism and magic with cult of virtue. His birth in 4 B.o. was alleged have been attended by miraculous signs. ‘He at Tarsus and Age, adopting the moral and ) Apoplexy. religious principles of Pythagoras for his guidance, He then seems to have travelled as a teacher over the greater part of the known world, visiting India and Ethiopia, and going to Rome in Nero's time to see “ what sort of a beast a tyrant was.’ He enjoyed the esteem of Vespas i an and Titus, but was charged with conspiracy against Domitian. He was taken to Rome, refuted his accusers, and returned by magical means, Afterwards he' prophesied the emperor's a a ination. He died about 96 A.D.