who was apollo and why was he important in greek myths?
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Apollo was the twin brother of Artemis. He's the son of Zeus. He's the god of sun, light, clarity, and truth. He's important in greek myths due to the myth of "Apollo and Daphne", where he chased a young beautiful water nymph because he got struck by "cupid's arrow", a gold tipped one that cause lust, desire, and love. Daphne was struck by a lead tipped arrow which cause disgust and repulsion. He chased Daphne across the Earth until she became tired and so came to Mother Earth who turned Daphne into a laurel tree, leaving Apollo heartbroken and despaired. Hmm...how sad isn't it?
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It was Athena.  Odyseus had a temple to Athena in his homeland, and he had prayed to her at the beginning and end of his voyage to Troy to fight in the Trojan War.  I believe Athena was his patron goddess.
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Greek gods loved, fought, contrived, planned, helped, ate, drank, and meddled in the affairs of others.  Hmmm..basically they were people with extreme abilities and immortality.
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The following passages are used without permission and address the Greek names of the gods.\n\nThe Twelve Olympians, also known as the Dodekatheon (Greek: δωδεκα, dodeka, "twelve" + θεον, theon, "of the gods"), in Greek religion, were the principal gods of the Greek pantheon, residing atop Mount Olympus. There were, at various times, seventeen different gods recognized as Olympians, though never more than twelve at one time.\n\nZeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, and Artemis are always considered Olympians. Hebe, Helios, Hestia, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, and Persephone are the variable gods among the Twelve. Hestia gave up her position as an Olympian to Dionysus in order to live among mankind (eventually she was assigned the role of tending the fire on Mount Olympus); while he sometimes would not accept the offer of being an Olympian god. Persephone spent three months of the year in the underworld (causing the barren landscape of summer), and was allowed to return to Mount Olympus for the other nine months in order to be with her mother, Demeter; who, during this time, would be in woe and not be with the Olympians. And, although Hades was always one of the principal Greek gods, his home in the underworld of the dead made his connection to the Olympians more tenuous. In some accounts, Helios gave up his seat for Apollo. In even rarer, but definite accounts, Hebe, the gods' cupbearer is an Olympian herself, but gave up her job as cupbearer to marry Heracles who became an Olympian upon his death.\n\nRoman names:\nZeus = Jupiter\nHera = Juno\nPoseidon = Neptune\nAres = Mars\nHermes = Mercury\nHephaestus = Vulcan\nAphrodite = Venus\nAthena = Minerva\nApollo = Apollo\nArtemis = Diana\nHebe = Juventas\nHelios = Sol\nHestia = Vesta\nDemeter = Ceres\nDionysus = Bacchus\nHades = Pluto\nPersephone = Prosperina\nHeracles = Hercules\n\nPlease take time to vote for the best answer.
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Greek mythology distinguishes itself from the others in many reasons, but the most interesting fact to me is that these gods we´re not in an unreachable plane. They descended among the humans and participated directly in their choices and actions, deciding the path of history for them in numerous cases.
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Being a goddess, she didn't really have any weaknesses.  She did, however, have a habit of cursing men who got a peak at her or shot one of her animals.  And, like her brother Apollo, she often loved a mortal (usually a maiden) who would meet and untimely death.
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Troy is a good answer and certainly a famous one, but I'm going to go with Gordion, capital city of ancient Turkey but now no more. I wonder whether it had anything to do with the famous "Gordion Knot?" It was fun looking this up. Thanks for the question!
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Apollonius was known as 'The Great Geometer'. His works had a very great influence on the development of mathematics and his famous book Conics introduced the terms parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.\nMore information on the site:\nhttp://www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Apollonius.html
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A & E special on Greek Mythology.\nhttp://www.royalty.nu/legends/Hercules.html
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I think you mean Pyg‧ma‧li‧on  /pɪgˈmeɪliən, -ˈmeɪlyən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pig-mey-lee-uhn, -meyl-yuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation \n\n–noun 1. Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.  \n2. (italics) a comedy (1912) by George Bernard Shaw.
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Greek mytholigy\nthe story was pased down but Homer was the 1st person to put it in writting so he was given credit
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Many of my philosophy professors and Jungian fanatics would like to believe that every greek myth is a metaphor for some part of the human mind. \n\nHowever, there are new theories coming to light. For exacmple, the greek peninsula was, in prehistoric times, covered with dinosaurs and ice age animals. \n\nNow, it was common for a city-state to identify with a certain greek hero or god (Athens and Athena, Hereklia and Hercules, etc.) In fact, they often would construct tombs for their heroes. \n\nSo, back to the animals, if Joe-Greek walking through the wilderness comes across an enormous bone, he has to wonder what it was. Often, it is surmised, that the thigh bone of a mastadon or mammoth was taken for that of a giant or a hero (because greek heroes were literally, larger than life). \n\nIt is also suggested that the mammoth's skull, which has a circular opening in the high center (for the animals trunk) must has looked quite like the skull of a cyclopes. Considering the greeks had likely ZERO knowledge about the animals of the ice age, this seems like a safe guess. \n\nAnother example is a frilled dinosaur skeleton. We, of course see it immediately as a triceratops or one of his cousins. The greeks, would see a short tail (like a lion), claws (like a lion or alligator) a beak (like an eagle) and the frill bones, which near it's shoulders (wings maybe?)\n\nDon't let your philosophy or mythology of psychology profs. tell you it's all about the human mind. It's all about the human *interpretation* of data.
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Try these:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/\n\nhttp://www.greekmythology.com/\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\n\nhttp://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/
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Pegasus\n\nWhen the hero Perseus (who is Zeus's son by the mortal Danae) cut off Medusa's head.  A few creatures were born from the blood. The winged horse Pegasus was one of them.\nI think there is another myth about Pegasus' origin. But a multiple birth is common in greek myth.
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The legend of Prometheus is a symbol of bravery - it is similar to many tales in The Bible, including the crucifiction. \n\nIn short, Prometheus stole the secret of fire from the Gods, he gave the fire to the people so that they could see at night and cook their food.\nWhen he was found out, the Gods hung him from a cliff where a bird would fly by every day and eat out his spleen.\nThis was to go on for eternity but he was "resurrected" by Zeus' son because the people regarded him as a hero. Some texts conclude that Zeus' son also had a "great love and admiration" for Prometheus. Take that as you will.\n\nSome believe that we began wearing rings and bracelets to remind ourselves of the bondage of Prometheus.
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apollo the god of sun in greek and roman mythology and he was also had seven servant every one presnt kind of art
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try Wikipedia\nthey'll have alot to tell u about the Greek pre-Zeus God of time