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Austin | wiktionary | Austin refers to: |
Austin | Common meanings | Common meanings
Austin, Texas, United States, a city
Austin (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
Austin (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
Austin Motor Company, a British car manufacturer |
Austin | Arts and entertainment | Arts and entertainment
Austin (album), by Post Malone, 2023
"Austin" (Blake Shelton song), 2001
"Austin" (Dasha song), 2023
Austin (TV series), a 2024 Australian comedy series |
Austin | Businesses and organisations | Businesses and organisations |
Austin | Businesses | Businesses
American Austin Car Company, short-lived American automobile maker
Austin Automobile Company, short-lived American automobile company
Austin Motor Company, British car manufacturer
Austin magazine, produced for the Austin Motor Company by in-house Nuffield Press
Austin Airways, a former Canadian passeng... |
Austin | Education | Education
Austin College, in Sherman, Texas, U.S.
Austin High School (disambiguation), several schools
University of Austin, in Austin, Texas, U.S.
University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Austin | Military | Military
USS Austin, the name of three ships
Austin-class amphibious transport dock, a former US Navy ship class
Austin Armoured Car, a British First World War armoured car |
Austin | People | People
Austin (given name), including a list of people with the name
Austin (surname), including a list of people with the name
Augustine of Hippo (354–430), also known as St. Austin, Christian theologian and saint |
Austin | Places | Places |
Austin | Canada | Canada
Austin, Manitoba, an unincorporated community
Austin, Ontario, a neighbourhood
Austin, Quebec, a municipality
Austin Island, Nunavut |
Austin | United States | United States
Austin, Arkansas, a city
Austin, Colorado, an unincorporated community
Austin, Chicago, Illinois, a community area
Austin, Indiana, a city
Austin, Kentucky
Austin, Minnesota, a city
Austin, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Austin, Nevada, an unincorporated town and census-designated place
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Austin | Elsewhere | Elsewhere
Austin, Western Australia, Australia, a ghost town
Mount Austin (Antarctica), Palmer Land
Austin Peak, part of the Mirabito Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica
Mount Austin, Hong Kong, a hill also known as Victoria Peak |
Austin | Sports | Sports
Austin FC, an American soccer club
Austin FC II, reserve team for Austin FC
Austin Spurs, an American basketball team
Austin Bruins, an American ice hockey team |
Austin | Other uses | Other uses
Austin (building), a building designed by artist Ellsworth Kelly in Austin, Texas
Austin, an adjective in England for Augustinian friars |
Austin | See also | See also
Austin station (disambiguation)
Austins (disambiguation)
Austen (disambiguation)
Austin Airport (disambiguation)
Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Austin Road, Hong Kong |
Austin | Table of Content | wiktionary, Common meanings, Arts and entertainment, Businesses and organisations, Businesses, Education, Military, People, Places, Canada, United States, Elsewhere, Sports, Other uses, See also |
Animation | Short description | Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animation has been recognized as an artistic medium, specifically within the entertain... |
Animation | General overview | General overview
Computer animation can be very detailed 3D animation, while 2D computer animation (which may have the look of traditional animation) can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth, or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two- and three-dimens... |
Animation | Etymology | Etymology
The word animation comes to the Latin word animātiō, meaning 'bestowing of life'. The earlier meaning of the English word is 'liveliness' and has been in use much longer than the meaning of 'moving image medium'. |
Animation | History<!--'Animated cartoon' redirects here--> | History
thumb|Prof. Stampfers Stroboscopische Scheibe No. X (1833)
thumb|A projecting praxinoscope, from 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene
thumb|Fantasmagorie (1908) by Émile Cohl |
Animation | Before cinematography | Before cinematography
Long before modern animation began, audiences around the world were captivated by the magic of moving characters. For centuries, master artists and craftsmen have brought puppets, automatons, shadow puppets, and fantastical lanterns to life, inspiring the imagination through physically manipulate... |
Animation | Silent era | Silent era
When cinematography eventually broke through in the 1890s, the wonder of the realistic details in the new medium was seen as its biggest accomplishment. It took years before animation found its way to the cinemas. The successful short The Haunted Hotel (1907) by J. Stuart Blackton popularized stop motion and... |
Animation | American golden age | American golden age
In 1928, Steamboat Willie, featuring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, popularized film-with-synchronized-sound and put Walt Disney's studio at the forefront of the animation industry. Although Disney Animation's actual output relative to total global animation output has always been very small, the s... |
Animation | Features before CGI | Features before CGI
thumb|upright=0.8|Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film El Apóstol
In 1917, Italian-... |
Animation | Television | Television
Animation became very popular on television since the 1950s, when television sets started to become common in most developed countries. Cartoons were mainly programmed for children, on convenient time slots, and especially US youth spent many hours watching Saturday-morning cartoons. Many classic cartoons fo... |
Animation | Switch from cels to computers | Switch from cels to computers
Computer animation was gradually developed since the 1940s. 3D wireframe animation started popping up in the mainstream in the 1970s, with an early (short) appearance in the sci-fi thriller Futureworld (1976).
The Rescuers Down Under was the first feature film to be completely created di... |
Animation | Economic status | Economic status
In 2010, the animation market was estimated to be worth circa US$80 billion. By 2021, the value had increased to an estimated US$370 billion. Animated feature-length films returned the highest gross margins (around 52%) of all film genres between 2004 and 2013. Animation as an art and industry continues... |
Animation | Education, propaganda and commercials | Education, propaganda and commercials
The clarity of animation makes it a powerful tool for instruction, while its total malleability also allows exaggeration that can be employed to convey strong emotions and to thwart reality. It has therefore been widely used for other purposes than mere entertainment.
During World... |
Animation | Other media, merchandise and theme parks | Other media, merchandise and theme parks
Apart from their success in movie theaters and television series, many cartoon characters would also prove lucrative when licensed for all kinds of merchandise and for other media.
Animation has traditionally been very closely related to comic books. While many comic book chara... |
Animation | Awards | Awards
As with any other form of media, animation has instituted awards for excellence in the field. Many are part of general or regional film award programs, like the China's Golden Rooster Award for Best Animation (since 1981). Awards programs dedicated to animation, with many categories, include ASIFA-Hollywood's A... |
Animation | Academy Awards | Academy Awards
Apart from Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film (since 1932) and Best Animated Feature (since 2002), animated movies have been nominated and rewarded in other categories, relatively often for Best Original Song and Best Original Score.
Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film nominated f... |
Animation | Production | Production
thumb|Joy & Heron
The creation of non-trivial animation works (i.e., longer than a few seconds) has developed as a form of filmmaking, with certain unique aspects. Traits common to both live-action and animated feature films are labor intensity and high production costs.
The most important difference is tha... |
Animation | Techniques | Techniques |
Animation | Traditional | Traditional
thumb|An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos
Traditional animation (also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation) is the process that was used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditional... |
Animation | Full | Full
Full animation is the process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films that regularly use detailed drawings and plausible movement, having a smooth animation. Fully animated films can be made in a variety of styles, from more realistically animated works like those produced by the Walt Disney studio ... |
Animation | Limited | Limited
Limited animation involves the use of less detailed or more stylized drawings and methods of movement usually a choppy or "skippy" movement animation. Limited animation uses fewer drawings per second, thereby limiting the fluidity of the animation. This is a more economic technique. Pioneered by the artists at... |
Animation | Rotoscoping | Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is a technique patented by Max Fleischer in 1917 where animators trace live-action movement, frame by frame. The source film can be directly copied from actors' outlines into animated drawings, as in The Lord of the Rings (US, 1978), or used in a stylized and expressive manner, as in Waking Lif... |
Animation | Live-action blending | Live-action blending
Live-action/animation is a technique combining hand-drawn characters into live action shots or live-action actors into animated shots. One of the earlier uses was in Koko the Clown when Koko was drawn over live-action footage. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created a series of Alice Comedies (1923–1927... |
Animation | Stop motion | Stop motion
Stop motion is used to describe animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a time to create the illusion of movement. There are many different types of stop-motion animation, usually named after the materials used to create the animation. Com... |
Animation | Computer | Computer
Computer animation encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor being that the animation is created digitally on a computer. 2D animation techniques tend to focus on image manipulation while 3D techniques usually build virtual worlds in which characters and objects move and interact. 3D animation ... |
Animation | 2D | 2D
thumb|A 2D animation of two circles joined by a chain
2D animation figures are created or edited on the computer using 2D bitmap graphics and 2D vector graphics. This includes automated computerized versions of traditional animation techniques, interpolated morphing, onion skinning and interpolated rotoscoping. 2D... |
Animation | 3D | 3D
thumb|Caminandes | Llama Drama
3D animation is digitally modeled and manipulated by an animator. The 3D model maker usually starts by creating a 3D polygon mesh for the animator to manipulate. A mesh typically includes many vertices that are connected by edges and faces, which give the visual appearance of form to ... |
Animation | Terms | Terms
Cel shading is used to mimic traditional animation using computer software. The shading looks stark, with less blending of colors. Examples include Skyland (2007, France), The Iron Giant (1999, U.S.), Futurama (1999, U.S.) Appleseed Ex Machina (2007, Japan), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002, Japan), The... |
Animation | Mechanical | Mechanical
Animatronics is the use of mechatronics to create machines that seem animate rather than robotic.
Audio-Animatronics is a form of robotics animation, combined with 3-D animation, created by Walt Disney Imagineering for shows and attractions at Disney theme parks move and make noise (generally a recorded sp... |
Animation | Other | Other
thumb|World of Color hydrotechnics at Disney California Adventure creates the illusion of motion using 1,200 fountains with high-definition projections on mist screens.
Musical fountain: a hydrautechnical show that includes water and lights, nowadays often combined with lasers and high-definition projections o... |
Animation | See also | See also
Animated war film
Animation department
Animated series
Anime
Architectural animation
Avar
Independent animation
International Animation Day
International Animated Film Association
International Tournée of Animation
List of film-related topics
Motion graphic design
Society for Animation Studies
T... |
Animation | References | References |
Animation | Citations | Citations |
Animation | Sources | Sources |
Animation | Journal articles | Journal articles
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Animation | Books | Books
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Animation | Online sources | Online sources
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Animation | External links | External links
The making of an 8-minute cartoon short
"Animando", a 12-minute film demonstrating 10 different animation techniques (and teaching how to use them) (archived 1 October 2009).
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Animation | Table of Content | Short description, General overview, Etymology, History<!--'Animated cartoon' redirects here-->, Before cinematography, Silent era, American golden age, Features before CGI, Television, Switch from cels to computers, Economic status, Education, propaganda and commercials, Other media, merchandise and theme parks, Award... |
Apollo | Short description | thumb|upright=.8|Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy (1798) by Charles Meynier
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophec... |
Apollo | Etymology | Etymology
thumb|upright|Apollo, fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD
Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: , ( ); Doric: , ; Arcadocypriot: , ; Aeolic: , ; )
The name Apollo—unlike the related older name Paean—is generally not found in the Linear B (Mycenean Greek) texts, although there is a possible attestation in... |
Apollo | Greco-Roman epithets | Greco-Roman epithets
Apollo's chief epithet was Phoebus ( ; , Phoibos ), literally "bright".R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 1582. It was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans for Apollo's role as the god of light. Like other Greek deities, he had a number of others applied ... |
Apollo | Sun | Sun
Aegletes ( ; , Aiglētēs), from , "light of the Sun"Apollonius of Rhodes, 2.1730;Apollodorus, 1.9.26.
Helius ( ; , Helios), literally "Sun"
Lyceus ( ; , Lykeios, from Proto-Greek *), "light". The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia ... |
Apollo | Wolf | Wolf
Lycegenes ( ; , Lukēgenēs), literally "born of a wolf" or "born of Lycia"
Lycoctonus ( ; , Lykoktonos), from , "wolf", and , "to kill" |
Apollo | Origin and birth | Origin and birth
Apollo's birthplace was Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos.
Cynthius ( ; , Kunthios), literally "Cynthian"
Cynthogenes ( ; , Kynthogenēs), literally "born of Cynthus"
Delius ( ; , Delios), literally "Delian"
Didymaeus ( ; , Didymaios) from δίδυμος, "twin", as the twin of Artemis |
Apollo | Place of worship | Place of worship
Delphi and Actium were his primary places of worship.Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.715.Strabo, x. p. 451
Acraephius ( ; , Akraiphios, literally "Acraephian") or Acraephiaeus ( ; , Akraiphiaios), "Acraephian", from the Boeotian town of Acraephia (), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus.Wiliam Smith. Dictio... |
Apollo | Healing and disease | Healing and disease
thumb|upright|Chryselephantine statue of Apollo in Delphi, mid-6th century B.C.
Acesius ( ; , Akesios), from , "healing". Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.
Acestor ( ; , Akestōr), literally "healer"
Culicarius (Roman) ( ), from Latin culicārius... |
Apollo | Founder and protector | Founder and protector
Agyieus ( ; , Aguīeus), from , "street", for his role in protecting roads and homes
Alexicacus ( ; , Alexikakos), literally "warding off evil"
Apotropaeus ( ; , Apotropaios), from , "to avert"
Archegetes ( ; , Arkhēgetēs), literally "founder"
Averruncus (Roman) ( ; from Latin āverruncare), "to ave... |
Apollo | Prophecy and truth | Prophecy and truth
Coelispex (Roman) ( ), from Latin coelum, "sky", and specere "to look at"
Iatromantis ( ; , Iātromantis,) from , "physician", and , "prophet", referring to his role as a god both of healing and of prophecy
Leschenorius ( ; , Leskhēnorios), from , "converser"
Loxias ( ; , Loxias), from , "to say", his... |
Apollo | Music and arts | Music and arts
Musagetes ( ; Doric , Mousāgetās), from , "Muse", and "leader".
Musegetes ( ; , Mousēgetēs), as the preceding |
Apollo | Archery | Archery
Aphetor ( ; , Aphētōr), from , "to let loose"
Aphetorus ( ; , Aphētoros), as the preceding
Arcitenens (Roman) ( ), literally "bow-carrying"
Argyrotoxus ( ; , Argyrotoxos), literally "with silver bow"
Clytotoxus ( ; , Klytótoxos), "he who is famous for his bow", the renowned archer.Homer, Odyssey 17.494
Hecaërgu... |
Apollo | Appearance | Appearance
Acersecomes (, Akersekómēs), "he who has unshorn hair", the eternal ephebe.See ἀκερσεκόμης
Chrysocomes ( ; , Khrusokómēs), literally "he who has golden hair". |
Apollo | Amazons | Amazons
Amazonius (), Pausanias at the Description of Greece writes that near Pyrrhichus there was a sanctuary of Apollo, called Amazonius () with an image of the god said to have been dedicated by the Amazons.Pausanias, Description of Greece, § 3.25.3 |
Apollo | Other | Other
Boedromius (), was a surname of Apollo in Athens, with varying explanations for its origin. Some claim that the reason the god was given this name was because he had helped the Athenians overcome the Amazons in their battle, which took place on the seventh of Boedromion, the day the Boedromia were later commemora... |
Apollo | Celtic epithets and cult titles | Celtic epithets and cult titles
Apollo was worshipped throughout the Roman Empire. In the traditionally Celtic lands, he was most often seen as a healing and sun god. He was often equated with Celtic gods of similar character.Miranda J. Green, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1997
Apollo At... |
Apollo | Origins | Origins
thumb|upright=.7|Omphalos in the Museum of Delphi
Apollo is considered the most Hellenic (Greek) of the Olympian gods.Burkert 1985:143.
The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE. The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's twin sister. At Delphi,... |
Apollo | Healer and god-protector from evil | Healer and god-protector from evil
left|thumb|upright=.7|Apollo Victorious over the Python by Pietro Francavilla (1591), depicting Apollo's victory over the serpent Python (The Walters Art Museum)
In classical times, his major function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and he was therefore called "apotropaios"... |
Apollo | Dorian origin | Dorian origin
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo depicts Apollo as an intruder from the north.Herbert W. Park (1956). The delphic oracle. Vol. I, p. 3 The connection with the northern-dwelling Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars.Graf, Apollo, pp. 104–1... |
Apollo | Minoan origin | Minoan origin
thumb|Ornamented golden Minoan labrys
George Huxley considered the identification of Apollo with the Minoan deity Paiawon, worshipped in Crete, to have originated at Delphi. In the Homeric Hymn, Apollo appears as a dolphin carrying Cretan priests to Delphi, to which site they evidently transfer their reli... |
Apollo | Anatolian origin | Anatolian origin
thumb|Illustration of a coin of Apollo Agyieus from Ambracia
A non-Greek origin of Apollo has long been assumed in scholarship. The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor. The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from ... |
Apollo | Proto-Indo-European | Proto-Indo-European
The Vedic Rudra has some functions similar to those of Apollo. The terrible god is called "the archer" and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.For as a name of Shiva see: Apte, p. 910. Rudra could bring diseases with his arrows, but he was able to free people of them and his alternative Shiva ... |
Apollo | Oracular cult | Oracular cult
thumb|Columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece
thumb|upright=.8|Oracular tripod
Unusually among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi. In cult practice, Delian Apollo and Pythian Apollo (the Apollo of Delphi) were so distinct that they mig... |
Apollo | Oracular shrines | Oracular shrines
thumb|Delos lions
Apollo had a famous oracle in Delphi, and other notable ones in Claros and Didyma. His oracular shrine in Abae in Phocis, where he bore the toponymic epithet Abaeus (, Apollon Abaios), was important enough to be consulted by Croesus.Herodotus, 1.46. His oracular shrines include:
Aba... |
Apollo | Temples of Apollo | Temples of Apollo
thumb|Partial view of the temple of Apollo Epikurios (healer) at Bassae in southern Greece
Many temples were dedicated to Apollo in Greece and the Greek colonies. They show the spread of the cult of Apollo and the evolution of Greek architecture, which was mostly based on the rightness of form and o... |
Apollo | Greek temples | Greek temples
thumb|Temple of the Delians at Delos, dedicated to Apollo (478 BC). 19th-century pen-and-wash restoration.
thumb|Gate at the Temple of Apollo (Naxos)
Thebes, Greece: The oldest temple probably dedicated to Apollo Ismenius was built in the 9th century BC. It seems that it was a curvilinear building. The Do... |
Apollo | Etruscan and Roman temples | Etruscan and Roman temples
Veii (Etruria): The temple of Apollo was built in the late 6th century BC, indicating the spread of Apollo's culture (Aplu) in Etruria. There was a prostyle porch, which is called Tuscan, and a triple cella 18.50 m wide.Robertson pp. 200–201
Falerii Veteres (Etruria): A temple of Apollo was b... |
Apollo | Mythology | Mythology
In the myths, Apollo is the son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Leto, his previous wifeHomer, Iliad 21.499 or one of his mistresses. Apollo often appears in the myths, plays and hymns either directly or indirectly through his oracles. As Zeus' favorite son, he had direct access to the mind of Zeus and was... |
Apollo | Birth | Birth
thumb|upright=.8|Leto fleeing with Artemis and Apollo, AD 350–400, in Kunstsien Stichting |
Apollo | ''Homeric Hymn to Apollo'' | Homeric Hymn to Apollo
Pregnant with the offspring of Zeus, Leto wandered through many lands wanting to give birth to Apollo. However all the lands rejected her out of fear. Upon reaching Delos, Leto requested the island to shelter her, and that in return her son would bring fame and prosperity to the island. Delos the... |
Apollo | Callimachus' ''Hymn to Delos'' | Callimachus' Hymn to Delos
The island Delos used to be Asteria, a goddess who jumped into the waters to escape the advances of Zeus and became a free-floating island of the same name. When Leto got pregnant, Hera was told that Leto's son would become more dear to Zeus than Ares. Enraged by this, Hera watched over the h... |
Apollo | Pindar | Pindar
Pindar is the earliest source who explicitly calls Apollo and Artemis as twins. Here, Asteria is also stated to be Leto's sister. Wanting to escape Zeus' advances, she flung herself into the sea and became a floating rock called Ortygia until the twins were born.Pindar, Pa. VII b When Leto stepped on the rock, ... |
Apollo | Hyginus | Hyginus
Scorning the advances of Zeus, Asteria transformed herself into a bird and jumped into a sea. From her, an island rose which was called Ortygia.Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 53 When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant with Zeus' child, she decreed that Leto can give birth only in a place where sun does not shine.... |
Apollo | Other variations | Other variations
Aside from those mentioned above, more variations on the story of Apollo's birth include:
Aelian states that it took Leto twelve days and twelve nights to travel from Hyperborea to Delos.Aelian, Characteristics of Animals 4. 4 Leto changed herself into a she-wolf before giving birth. This is given a... |
Apollo | Hyperborea | Hyperborea
thumb|upright=.8|Apollo head in the Antalya Museum, Turkey
Hyperborea, the mystical land of eternal spring, venerated Apollo above all the gods. The Hyperboreans always sang and danced in his honor and hosted Pythian games.Pindar, Pindar, Olympian Ode There, a vast forest of beautiful trees was called "the ... |
Apollo | Childhood and youth | Childhood and youth
Growing up, Apollo was nursed by the nymphs Korythalia and Aletheia, the personification of truth.Plutarch, Moralia 657e Phoebe, his grandmother, gave the oracular shrine of Delphi to Apollo as a birthday gift.Aeschylus, Eumenides
As a four-year-old child, Apollo built a foundation and an altar on... |
Apollo | Lycian peasants | Lycian peasants
thumb|Latona and the Lycian peasants, by Joshua Cristall
Soon after giving birth to her twins, Leto fled from Delos fearing Hera. Upon reaching Lycia, her infants had drained all of their mother's milk and cried for more to satisfy their hunger. The exhausted mother then tried drinking from a nearby l... |
Apollo | Slaying of Python | Slaying of Python
thumb|Apollo victorious over the Python, by François Gaspard Adam|left
Python, a chthonic serpent-dragon, was a child of Gaia and the guardian of the Delphic Oracle.
In the Callimachus' hymn to Delos, fetal Apollo foresees the death of Python at his hands.
In the Homeric hymn to Apollo, Python was ... |
Apollo | Establishment of worship in Delphi | Establishment of worship in Delphi
Continuing from his victory over Python, the Homeric hymn describes how the young god established his worship among the humans. As Apollo was pondering about what kind of men he should recruit to serve him, he spotted a ship full of Cretan merchants or pirates. He took the form of a ... |
Apollo | Tityus | Tityus
thumb|Apollo slaying Tityos, Attic red-figure kylix, 460–450 BC
Tityus was another giant who tried to rape Leto, either on his own accord when she was on her way to DelphiHomer, Odyssey 11. 576Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.22 or at the order of Hera.Hyginus, Fabulae 55 Leto called upon on her children who instant... |
Apollo | Admetus | Admetus
thumb|Apollo guards the herds (or flocks) of King Admetus, by Felice Gianni
Admetus was the king of Pherae, who was known for his hospitality. When Apollo was exiled from Olympus for killing Python, he served as a herdsman under Admetus, who was then young and unmarried. Apollo is said to have shared a romanti... |
Apollo | Niobe | Niobe
thumb|Niobe's children are killed by Apollo and Diana, by Pierre-Charles Jombert
The fate of Niobe was prophesied by Apollo while he was still in Leto's womb. Niobe was the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion. She displayed hubris when she boasted that she was superior to Leto because she had fourteen children (... |