Apollo

Apollo
	; Apollo as seen in Boy Comics #10
Real Name	Ἀπόλλων, Apollo
First Appearance	Ancient Greece
Created by	Greek Folk Lore

Origin[]

Apollo was known as the Greek/Roman deity of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts. He was the child of Zeus and Leto making him one of the the twelve Olympians. He also has a twin sister named Artemis, who was know to the Romans as Diana. He was the leader of the Muses and was give a lyre by his half-brother Hermes. This instrument would later become a symbol for Apollo.

Public Domain Literary Appearances[]

Metamorphoses (poem), by Ovid (8 CE)
The Pantheon, by François Pomey (1659)
A New Pantheon, by Samuel Boyse (1753)
The Gentleman and Lady’s Key, to Polite‐Literature (1763)
Apollo et Hyacinthus (opera), libretto by Rufinus Widl, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1776)
Bell’s New Pantheon (1790)
A History of the Heathen Mythology, by M. l’abbé de Tressan (1797)
A New Classical Dictionary, by Thomas Browne (1797)
Elements of Mythology; or An Easy and Concise History of the Pagan Deities, by Abraham John Valpy (1805)
The Pantheon: or Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome, by Edward Baldwin (pseudonym of William Godwin) (1806)
A Christian Wreath for the Pagan Deities: or, An Introduction to the Greek and Roman Mythology, by Frances Arabella Rowden (1820)
“Hymn of Apollo,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824)

Frank Communale[]

Apollo assisted his sister Diana the Huntress in protecting Greece from the Nazis.

Quality Comics[]

During one of his adventures,Kid Eternity summons Apollo, Thor, and Robin Hood to help him fight crime.

Lev Gleason[]

Yankee Longago meets Apollo as well as his fellow Olympians Pan, Vulcan, Apollo, Mercury, Venus, Bacchus, and Mars.

Centaur Comics[]

Craig Carter can summon Apollo and other mythological figures from his magic ring.

Public Domain Appearances[]

Boy Comics #10
Wham Comics #1
Hit Comics #51
Adventures into the Unknown #39
Yellowjacket #1
Humdinger vol. 1 #4
Thrilling Comics #47
A Treasury of Horses

Notes[]

Both the Greeks and the Romans called him Apollo. He is the only one of the Greek mythological figures to keep his name unchanged in both mythologies.