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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 110. Chapters: Apollo, Aphrodite, Pan, Dionysus, Helen, Heracles, Athena, Hermes, Artemis, Sparta, Moirae, Muse, Castor and Pollux, Minos, Tantalus, Balius and Xanthus, Amphion and Zethus, Charites, Aeacus, Thalia, Tyche, Rhadamanthus, Euterpe, Eileithyia, Nemean lion, Arcas, Aglaea, Pirithous, Horae, Epaphus, Terpsichore, Pelasgus, Britomartis, Urania, Astraea, Palici, Iasion, Erato, Caerus, Sarpedon, Dardanus, Melpomene, Ate, Polyhymnia, Ersa, Agamedes, Litae, Olenus, Emathion, Pandia, Crinacus, Locrus, Atropos, Clotho, Perseus, Makedon, Hebe, Tityos, Lachesis, Eunomia, Keroessa, Melinoe, Clio, Euphrosyne, Myrmidon, Alagonia, Aegipan, Graecus, Magnes, Aethlius, Corinthus, Thebe, Lacedaemon, Pherusa, Opus, Kallichore, Euporie. Excerpt: Helen may refer to: Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apoll n (gen.: ); Doric:, Apell n; Arcadocypriot:, Apeil n; Aeolic:, Aploun; Latin: ) 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 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 the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god-the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing were 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. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became ass...
