阿波羅Apollo
    
    雅思口語素材：古希臘12主神介紹(阿波羅)
    阿波羅(希臘文 Απολλων;拉丁文 Apollo )古希臘神話中最著名的神祇之一，希臘神話中十二主神之一，是主神宙斯與暗夜女神勒托所生之子，阿爾忒彌斯的孿生哥哥，全名為福玻斯·阿波羅(Phoebus Apollo)，意思是“光明”或“光輝燦爛”。
    Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: ?π?λλων, Apollōn (gen.: ?π?λλωνος); Doric: ?π?λλων,Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: ?πε?λων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: ?πλουν, Aploun; Latin: Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco–Roman Neopaganism. 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, healing, plague, music, poetry, 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.
    As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing are 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 ofAeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII (161–215). Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 3rd century CE.