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/əˈpɑɫoʊ/
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[ UK /ɐpˈɒləʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈɒləʊ/ ]
NOUN
- (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
How To Use Apollo In A Sentence
- _The Apollo of Rhodes_, usually called the colossus, was a gigantic bronze statue, 150 feet high, made by Charês, a pupil of Lysippus, and set up B.C. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
- To honor his triumph over the beast, Apollo instated the sacred games known as Pythian, which are held at Delphi every four years since 6 B.C.
- KING: How do you react to the fact, we'll get to "Apollo 13" and lots of other things, that people looked at it from their point of view, liberals saw it as liberal, conservatives saw it conservative, moderates saw it as moderate, some people saw it as apolitical, antipolitical. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Tom Hanks' Career From `Bonfire of the Vanities' to `Saving Private Ryan' - February 17, 2001
- SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities? Cratylus
- In the Apollo period there was a strong negative correlation between budgetary input and scientific output. Infinite in All Directions
- Coinciding with the moon landing of Apollo 11, the gates of Faerie flood open and Trods and balefires reawaken.
- He insists that, even though he wears the garlands of victory, he must leave the city of Argos in disgrace and return to the oracle of Apollo in the city of Pytho, also called Delphi.
- The Dorian worship of Apollo ..., always opposed to the sad Christian divinities, is the aspiring element, by force and spring of which Greek religion sublimes itself .... The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
- ‘We don't want taxpayer dollars being spent in order to proselyte children into praying to Zeus and Apollo,’ she remarked.
- In the Apollo period there was a strong negative correlation between budgetary input and scientific output. Infinite in All Directions