“I swear by Apollo the physician, by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses. ...”

 

Thus begins the Hippocratic oath, taken by all physicians.

 

The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, the protector of the young and more.His forename, Phoebus, means “bright” or “pure” and connects him to his grandmother, the Titan Phoebe, Seen as the most beautiful god , handsome and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), and attributes such as a wreath and branch of laurel, bow and quiver of arrows, raven, and lyre.

 

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the 12 Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology and was the only Greek God the Romans did not change the name of.

 

He is the son of Zeus and Leto, born on the island of Delos and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt who also shared an aptitude for archery.

 

Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.

 

He is often depicted as the father of Asclepius, the god of healing and medicine, and is himself credited with delivering people from epidemics.

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