Apollo Apollo Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: , "Apollōn" ( ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the "kouros" (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be
History of the Greek alphabet writing engraved on certain tripods in the temple of Apollo at Thebes. He estimated that those tripods dated back to the time of Laius, the great-grandson of Cadmus. On one of the tripods there was this inscription in Cadmean writing, which as he attested, resembled Ionian letters: (""Amphitryon dedicated me from the spoils of [the battle of] Teleboae.""). A second tripod bears the inscription in hexameter verse: . (""Scaeus the boxer, victorious in the contest, dedicated me to Apollo, the archer god, a lovely offering""). Herodotus estimated that if Scaeus, the son of Hippocoon was the dedicator and not another