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Musagetes- meaning patron of the Muses. Paean- meaning the healing god. 10. Phoebus-

meaning shining. 11. Smintheus- meaning mouse god.

Apollo had many things that he enjoyed. He was very athletic. Apollo was the first

winner of the Olympian Games. He was a master archer, and was a fast runner. Apollo s

scared tree was the lyre, his sacred birds were the raven and the swan. Apollo s sacred is

land was Delos.

Apollo was said to drive a golden chariot across the sky each day, representing

the sun. He is seen here with his horse-drawn chariot on a ceiling painting in the palazzo

Corsinl in Florence Italy. Because of his beauty, Apollo was painted and sculpted in

ancient art more frequently than any other deity. Many poems were also written about

Apollo.

The Loard of the unerring bow,

The god of life, poetry, and light,

The sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow

All radiant from his triumph in the fight.

The shaft has just been shot; the arrow bright

With an immortal s vengeance; in his eye

And nostril, beautiful disdain, and might

And majesty flash their full lightning s by,

Developing in that one glance the Deity.

The Story of Apollo an Daphne is retold in stories, songs, and poems, the fowling

is one of those poems.

Yet what he sung in his immortal strain,

Thought unsuccessful, was not sung in vain.

All but the nymph that should redress his wrong,

Attend his passion and approve his song

Like Phoebus thus, acquiring unsought praise,

He caught at love and filled his arms with bays

Apollo s story: The Python at Delphi