1. APOLLO
“The Sun God”

2. Apollo’s origin
• Apollo and artemis were twins. They were the magical children of zeus and
Leto. The twins - Apollo and his sister, Artemis - adored their mother.
Apollo, especially, was very protective of his mother.
• When the ancient Romans heard the many Greek myths about Apollo, they
loved them!
• The ancient Romans were always borrowing gods from other cultures. When
they ran into a myth they liked, they renamed the god and made him or her a
Roman god.
They loved the myths about Apollo so much that they did not even change his name.
Apollo is Apollo in Greek and in Roman mythology, and the stories are the same.

3. Apollo’s Appearance
• Apollo's Appearance: A young man with curly
golden hair.

4. Apollo’s Symbol or
Attribute:
• The Sun itself, the lyre, the bow, and the chariot
he drives across the sky daily, borrowed from an
earlier pre-Greek Sun god, Helios.

5. Apollo strengths
• Creative, handsome, supportive of all the arts of
civilization.

6. Weaknesses of Apollo
• Like his father Zeus, Apollo is all too happy to
enjoy the charms of nymphs, as well as the
occasional youth, and his conquests number in the
dozens.

7. The Birth Place Of
Apollo
• On the sunny Greek island of Delos, where he was
born along with his twin sister, Artemis. Another
tradition gives the islands of Lato, now called
Paximadia, off the southern coast of Crete.

8. Spouse of Apollo
• Apollo had many encounters, but no marriages. Flings with Cassandra, to
whom he gave the gift of prophecy; Daphne, who fled from his embrace and
turned into a laurel tree; and Calliope, with whom he had a child, Orpheus.