Apollo

Son of Jupiter and Leto, twin brother of Diana; b. in Delos. His chief oracle was at Delphi. from the old name of which, Pytho, he is called the Pythian. He is the god of prophecy, of song and music, of the Sun, and, as the father of Æsculapius, of the healing art. Apollo Belvedere. Apollo Belvedere. Statue in the Vatican, first exhibited in the Belvedere garden of that palace; found 1503 near Antium.