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Apollo Delphinios or Delphidios was a sea-god worshipped especially in Crete and in the islands. [86] Apollo's sister Artemis, ... Apollon Abaios), ...
Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto.
Apollon may refer to: . Apollo, ancient Greek god of light, healing and poetry; Apollon (Formula One), Formula One constructor Apollon Kalamarias, Greek football club; Apollon Smyrnis F.C., a Greek football club from Athens
The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already been in use prior to this, [1] such as in the writings of poet Friedrich Hölderlin, historian Johann ...
In doing so, Apollo took the form of a dolphin, boarded the ship, and the sailors were awed into fearful submission to the deity. [55] A divine wind guided the ship across the sea and to Crissa, where Apollo revealed himself to the sailors, commanded them to worship him, and guided them to Delphi where he promptly put them in charge of the ...
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Apollo, a character in the musical TV series Pajanimals; Apollo, a character in The Amory Wars comic book series; Apollo, a character in the Zatch Bell! anime/manga series; Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the Lost television series; Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky film series
Apollon of Olympia. The Apollon of Olympia was part of the group of sculptures found in the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Its original location also provides it with another name: the Apollon from the west pediment. It is one of the most important statues of the Severe style or early Classical style, dating from ca. 460 BCE.