History and mythology

  BIO Apollo God of music, poetry, plague, oracles, sun, medicine, light and knowledge   Abode                        Mount Olympus Symbol                       Lyre, laurel wreath, python, raven, bow and arrows Parents                      Zeus and Leto Siblings                      Artemis Children                     Asclepius, Troilus, Aristaeus, Orpheus Roman equivalent     Apollo     Introduce Apollo is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities in 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, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts, archery 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. Apollo was worshiped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, and in the modern Greco–Roman Neopaganism. As t