Details of Apollo personified on coins
Apollo was the sun-god, the god of prophesy, healing, music and the arts. His most common attribute is the lyre (a musical instrument).
The object shown here in his right hand is probably a plectrum used to play the lyre. Unlike most male gods Apollo is normally shown clothed rather than naked, and often looks very feminine.
Apollo appears on Roman coins from the 3rd century BC until the end of the 3rd century AD. He is often given the titles Propugnator or Conservator meaning ‘The Defender’.
Attributes
- Clothed, feminine
- Lyre
- Plectrum
Greek counterpart
Apollo can be identified with the Greek deity Apollo
Wikipedia derived information
Apollo is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology.
The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
Apollo was worshiped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, and in the modern GrecoâRoman Neopaganism. As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular godâthe prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.
Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musegetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo.
Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans. In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon. In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII (161â215).
Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 3rd century CE..
God of: God of music, poetry, plague, oracles, sun, medicine, light and knowledge
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo
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