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
Achaeus (son of Xuthus) Achaeus (son of Xuthus) In Greek mythology, Achaeus or Achaios (; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιός "Akhaiós", derived from "αχος" "achos", "grief, pain, woe") was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and consequently a brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen. Servius alone calls Achaeus a son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Pithia, probably a misspelling of Phthia, who was otherwise known as the daughter of Phoroneus compare the account of Clement. His children were Archander and Architeles. The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as