Apollo ascribed to the god. However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature. Apollo's birthplace was Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos. Delphi and Actium were his primary places of worship. Apollo was worshipped throughout the Roman Empire. In the traditionally Celtic lands he was most often seen as a healing and sun god. He was often equated with Celtic gods of similar character. The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE. The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's
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