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July 7, 2010 Fishing around' APOLLON (or Apollo) was the great Olympian god of prophecy and oracles, healing, plague and disease, music, song and poetry, archery, and the protection of the young. He was depicted as a handsome, beardless youth with long hair and various attributes including:--a wreath and branch of laurel; bow and quiver; raven; and lyre.

Apollon sits on a stool strumming a lyre with one hand and pouring a libation from a cup with the other. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel leaves and is attended by a black crow or raven.

The most famous myths of Apollon include:--
 * [|His birth] on the island of Delos;
 * [|The slaying of the serpent Python] which guarded the oracular shrine of Delphoi;
 * [|The slaying of the giant Tityos] who attempted to carry off the god's mother Leto;
 * [|The destruction of the Niobides] whose mother had offended Leto with her boasts;
 * [|His music contest] with the satyr Marsyas who lost and was flayed alive;
 * [|His love for the youth Hyakinthos] who was killed by a discus throw and transformed into a flower;
 * [|His love for the nymph Daphne] who fled from him and was transformed into a laurel tree;
 * [|His love for Koronis] who was slain by Artemis for her infidelity;
 * [|The murder of the Kyklopes] who had forged the lightning bolt used to destroy his son Asklepios;
 * His service as bondsman to the mortal Admetos;
 * His struggle with Herakles for the Delphic tripod;
 * The Trojan War in which he brought plague to the Greeks and helped Paris slay Akhilleus.