Apollo Apollo is said to have built a foundation and an altar on Delos using the horns of the goats that his sister Artemis hunted. Since he learnt the art of building when young, he later became "Archegetes", the founder of towns and god who guided men to build new cities. In his young years when Zeus had ignored him, Apollo spent his time herding cows. There, he was reared by Thriae, the bee nymphs, who trained him and enhanced his prophetic skills. During this time, Apollo also invented the lyre, and along with Artemis, the art of archery. He then
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