Apollo

Also known as: Far-Darter / King Apollo / Lycian Apollo / Phoebus / Phoebus Apollo · Family: gods · Role: god · First appears: BOOK I

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Apollo) · The Odyssey (as Apollo) · The Aeneid (as Apollo) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Apollo) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Apollo) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Apollo) · The Divine Comedy (as Apollo)

In Book I, Apollo, son of Jove and Leto, sends a pestilence against the Achaeans after Agamemnon dishonors Chryses, his priest. When Ulysses returns Chryseis to Chryses, Apollo hears Chryses’s prayer and ends the pestilence. In Book V, he takes Aeneas to Pergamus, where Leto and Diana heal him; later, in Book XV, Apollo restores Hector’s strength and leads the Trojans in destroying the Achaean wall.

In Book XVI, Apollo heals Glaucus and removes Sarpedon’s body from danger, entrusting it to Death and Sleep for transport to Lycia. He also strikes Patroclus from behind, knocking away his helmet and other armor. In Book XX, as the gods join the fighting, Apollo hides Hector from Achilles; in Book XXI, he rescues Agenor and diverts Achilles. In Book XXIII, Apollo makes Diomed drop his whip during the chariot race, though Minerva counters the trick and Diomed wins.