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Apollo

Typical forms instantly

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  Chryselephantine torso, Delphi, 550 BC
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  Piraeus Apollo, 530-520 BC
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  Small bronze, 510 BC
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  Herakles with tripod and Apollo, 510-500 BC
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  460 BC
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  Artemis, altar with palm-tree, Apollo, 450 BC
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  with kithara, 400-380 BC
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  Roman copy after a Greek original 4th century BC
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Birth of Apollo

Leto

See Leto

Delos

See Homeric Hymn to Apollo

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  Sacred lake at Delos 1919
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  Former Sacred lake at Delos
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  Sacred Mount Kynthos on Delos
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  Artemis, altar with palm-tree, Apollo, 450 BC

Apollo in ancient art

Pottery

Chronological

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  640 BC
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  Apollo, Tityos, Leto, Artemis, 515 BC
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  500 BC
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  Apollo and Artemis at altar, 490 BC
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  Departure Apollo, 500-475 BC
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  Apollo and Artemis, 470 BC
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  460 BC
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  with lyre, 460-450 BC
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  with kithara, ca 450 BC
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  right, 420 BC
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  Paris and Apollo, 420 BC
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  Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, 415-400 BC
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  Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, 380–370 BC
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  Orestes being purified by Apollo, 380–370 BC

Reliefs

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  Zeus, Leto, Apollo, Artemis, 420-410 BC
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  Apollon and marsyas, 330-320 BC
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  Apollo stands on the right, 340 BC
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  200 AD
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  200-225 AD
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  from Aachen, Roman Age

Statues

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  Chryselephantine torso, Delphi, 550 BC
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  Chryselephantine torso, Delphi, 550 BC
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  Piraeus Apollo, 530-520 BC
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  Small bronze, 510 BC
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  Etrucan Apollo from Veii, 510-500 BC
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  460 BC
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  Roman copy after Greek original 5th century BC
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  Apollo Choiseul-Gouffier, Roman copy after Greek original 460-450 BC
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  Apollo on Omphalos, Roman copy after Greek original 460-450 BC (corrected torso)
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  Apollo Patroos, Athens, 4th century BC
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  Roman Age archaized work (as 5th century BC)
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  Roman copy after a Greek original 4th century BC
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  Cyprus, ca 250 BC
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  from Pompeii
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  Roman-Gallic work, 2nd century CE

Roman copies in famous Museums

(Weird replicas)

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  Apollo Kassel, Roman copy after a Greek original 450 BC
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  Apollo Anzio, Roman copy after a Greek original 4th century BC
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  Apollo Sauroctonos, replica after Praxiteles, 350 BC
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  Apollo Palatino, Roman copy after a Greek original 350-300 BC
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  Apollo barberini, Roman Age free reproduction of a Greek work from 4th century BC
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  Apollo Belvedere, Roman copy after a Greek original 330-320 BC
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  Apollo on Galatian shield, 2nd century BC

Coins

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  Apollo Karneios, Metapontum, 430-400 BC
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  320-392 BC
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  360-333 BC
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  4th century BC
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  204-197 BC
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  175-164 BC

Atributes

Bow

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  500 BC
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  Apollo piercing with his arrows Tityos, who has tried to rape his mother Leto.
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  Apollo, Leto, Tityos, 450-440 BC

Lyre

Lyre or cithara (kythara)

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  6th century BC
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  460 BC
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  with lyre, 460-450 BC
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  with kithara, 400-380 BC
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  400-350 BC
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  Cyrene, 2nd century Ad

Tripod

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  380-360 BC
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  330-300 BC
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  304-289 BC
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Struggle between Herakles and Apollo for tripod

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  Dionysos, Herakles with tripod, Apollo, Athena, 530-510 BC
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  Herakles with tripod and Apollo, 510-500 BC
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  Apollo and Herakles with tripod, 520 BC
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  Herakles with tripod and Apollo, 480 BC

Omphalos

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  Artemis and Apollo at omphalos
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  Apollo on Omphalos, Roman copy after Greek original 460-450 BC (corrected torso)
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  300 BC
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  242-227 BC
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  223-187 BC

Palm-tree

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  Artemis, altar with palm-tree, Apollo, 450 BC
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  Apollo, deer, palm-tree, Leto

Raven

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  222-187 BC

The Young gods

Apollo, Hermes and Dionysos

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  Hermes with Maia, Apollo, Dionysos with maenad
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  Apollo, Dionysos, Hermes
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  Apoolo or Dionysos, from Pistiros

Apollo and Hermes

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  Hermes, Apollo, Artemis

Apollo and the others

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  The rape of Leto by Tityos
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  Apollo piercing with his arrows Tityos.
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  Orestes being purified by Apollo, 380–370 BC

Apollo and Artemis

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  Apollo, deer, palm-tree, Leto
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  Apollo and Artemis near altar, 490 BC
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  Apollo and Artemis, 470 BC
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  415-400 BC

Temples

Main temples

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  Delphi, 4th century BC on site of 7th century BC
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  Delos, Oikos of the Naxians, 570 BC on site of 7th century BC
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  Delos, Temple Porinos, 550-525 BC on site of an older shrine
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  Delos, Great Temple (of the Delians), 477 BC on site of an older shrine
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  Delos, Temple of the Athenians, 421-417 BC

Oracular shrines of Apollo

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  Delphi
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  Ptoon, very old mountain shrine in Boeotia
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  Didymai in Asia Minor
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  Klaros in Asia Minor

Temples of the Apollo Delios

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  on Naxos, 530 BC on site of an older shrine
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  on Paros, 5th century BC on site of an older shrine

Temples of the Apollo Pythios

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  on Thera (Santorini)

Other old temples of Apollo

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  Korint, 7th-6th century BC
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  Apollo Karneios on Thera (Santorini)
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  Gortys on Crete, 7th-3rd century BC
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  7th century BC
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  6th century BC
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  on Anafi, 4th century BC on site of an older shrine
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  Bassai, 420-400 BC
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  Metapontum
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  Rhodos

Analogies and echoes

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  Apollo and Daphne, 1450-1455
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  15th century
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  Apollo and Hephaestus, ca 1500
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  Apollo and Diana (Artemis), Cranach, 1530
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  1538
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  1531-1576
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  Apollo and Kyakynthos, 1546-1571
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  16th century
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  1594
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  Apollo and Daphne, 1616-1618
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  16th-17th century
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  17th century
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  Louis XIV. as Apollo, 1653
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  1718
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  early 18th century
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  Apollo and Daphne, 1720-1730
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  1790
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  1808
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  1897
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  1964

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