Apollon

God of light, music, disease, and prophecy. His most famous shrine was at Delphi, considered to be the center (navel) of the world -- indeed, its prophecies were greatly influential in the Ancient Greek world. He also had major shrines at Delos, where he and his sister Artemis were born, and Claros, another oracular site.

Epithets

• Thearios: Of the Oracle
• Proopsios: Foreseeing
• Klêrios: Distributing by Lot
• Klêdônes: Giver of Omens in Words and Sounds
• Hekatos: Far-shooting
• Agraios: Of the Hunt
• Mousêgetês: Leader of the Muses
• Oulios: Of Sound Health
• Paian: Healer
• Akesios: Of Healing
• Alexikakos: Averter of Evil
• Epikourios: The Helper
• Boêdromios: Rescuer
• Lykios: Of the Wolves
• Smintheios: Of the Mice
• Parnopios: Of the Locuts
• Erythibios: Of Mildew
• Delphinios: Of the Dolphin
• Aktios: Of the Foreshore
• Theoxenios: Of Foreigners
• Argyieus: Of the Street
• Prostatêrios: Standing (Before the Entrance)

Offerings

• Bay laurel
• Frankincense
• Lapis lazuli
• Palm trees
• Lyres
• Bows and arrows
• Tripods

Prayers and Hymns

“O lord Apollo strike the guilty ones with harm, destroy them as you do destroy but prosper us…”

-Archilochus, M.L. West's Greek Lyric Poetry

"Phoebus, of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre, always sings both first and last. And so hail to you, lord! I seek your favour with my song."

-The Homeric Hymn to Apollon

"Oh Phoibos, helper through your oracles,

Come, joyous Leto’s son, who works afar

Averter hither come hither come hither

Foretell give prophecies amid night’s hour.”

-PGM II