Download Apollo the God of the Sun

WHO IS THE GOD/GODDESSES?
APOLLO
APOLLO
WHO ARE THE GODS?
In Greek mythology, Greek gods frequently
interact with humans, especially attractive
young women, and so you will find them in
genealogy charts for the important figures from
Greek legend.
APOLLO AND HIS SON PHAETHON
WHAT DO THEY DO?
GODDESSES WERE FRO A STRANGE MIXTURE
OF INFLUENCES. PEOPLE BELIEVED IN GOD AND
SPIRITS IN THE PAST. EACH GOD OR
GODDESSES WAS REPRESENTED FOR
SOMETHING. ONE EXAMPLE IS APOLLO HE WAS
THE GOD OF SUN.
WHY WERE THEY IMPORTANT?
• MANY YEARS IN THE PAST GODS HAD THE
POWER OF SOMETHING THAS WHAT PEOPLE
THOGHT. ACTUALLY WE KNOW ALL THESE
THINGS WERE MYTHS THING THAT HAD NEVER
BEEN TRUE.
APOLLO'S CHARIOT
WHO WAS APOLLO?
• HE WAS THE SUN”S GOD, POETRY, MUSIC
AND ORACLES. FISRTABLE HE WAS THE
SUN”S GOD AND HE BROUGTH THE LIGHT
TO THE WORLD RIDING HIS CHARIOT
PULLED BY POWERS HORSES.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
• Apollo was son of Jupiter and Latona, and
brother of Diana, and of all the divinities in
the pagan world, the chief cherisher and
protecter of the polite arts, and the most
conspicuous character in heathen theology;
nor unjustly, from the glorious attributes
ascribed to him, for he was the god of light,
medicine, eloquence, music, poetry and
prophecy.
GODDESSES
PERSONAL LIFE
• WHEN HE WAS AN ADULT BECAME
ENAMORED OF DAPHNE, DAUGTER OF THE
RIVER PENEUS, OF THESSALY. THE GOD
PURSUED HER, BUT SHE FLYING TO
PRESERV HER CHASITY, WAS CHANGED
INTO A LAUREL, WHOSE LEAVES APOLO
IMMEDIATELY CONSECRATED TO BIND HIS
TEMPLES, AND BECOME THE REWARD OF
POETRY.