Apollo

Rules over:

Music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light, and knowledge

Symbols:

Lyre, laurel wreath, python, raven, bow and arrows

Animals:

Wolf, dolphin

Apollo is the ideal of the kouros, which means he has a beardless, athletic, and youthful appearance. He is also an oracular God as a patron of Delphi and could predict prophecy through the Delphic Oracle Pythia.

Both medicine and healing are associated with Apollo and were thought to sometimes be mediated through his son, Asclepius. However, Apollo could also bring ill-health and deadly plague.

Apollo also became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. He was the leader of the Muses and was director of the choir - functioning as the patron God of music and poetry.

The God Hermes created the Lyre for Apollo and this instrument became a known attribute for him. When hymns were sung to Apollo they were called paeans.

Children:

Asclepius

Troilus

Aristaeus

Orpheus