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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20663" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_20663" /> == | ||
<p> (Ἀπόλλων, the destroyer, so called because his shafts, the rays of Phebus or the sun, inflict disease or "the sun-stroke" in | <p> (Ἀπόλλων, the destroyer, so called because his shafts, the rays of Phebus or the sun, inflict disease or "the sun-stroke" in Oriental climates), one of the great divinities of the Greeks, according to [[Homer]] (Iliad, 1, 21, 316) the-son of [[Jupiter]] (Zeus) and [[Leto]] (Latona), and the brother of [[Artemis]] or [[Diana]] (Hesiod, Theogn. 918). He was fabled to be the god who punishes the wicked and insolent, who affords help and wards off evil, particularly from cattle, who presided over the foundation of cities, and especially as the god of music and prophecy (Smith, Dict. of Class. Mythol. s.v.). (See [[Oracle]]). In this last office he is indirectly alluded to in the account of the daemoniac damsel cured by [[Paul]] (Acts 16:16). (See [[Pythoness]]). [[Josephus]] mentions an audience of [[Archelaus]] held by [[Tiberius]] in a splendid temple of [[Apollo]] built by him in [[Rome]] (Ant. 17, 11, 1); and he also speaks of a temple of his at Gaza, into which the nobles of the city took refuge from the massacre by [[Alexander]] Jannaeus, (Ant. 13, 13, 3). </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67779" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67779" /> == | ||
