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
HMS Apollo (F70) rather than two 1977 QEII Silver Jubilee Medals. "Apollo" was positioned between and . "Apollo" was intended to be modernised, which would have included the removal of her one 4.5-inch twin gun, which would have been replaced by the Exocet anti-ship missile, but the modernisation was cancelled due to the 1981 Defence Review by the minister, John Nott. In July 1982, "Apollo" was sent to patrol the South Atlantic in the aftermath of the Falklands War and returned home in September. In late 1983 "Apollo" once again returned to the South Atlantic. On this occasion "Apollo" encountered heavy seas in