(Encyclopedia) ApolloApolloəpŏlˈō [key], in Greek religion and mythology, one of the most important Olympian gods, concerned especially with prophecy, medicine, music and poetry, archery, and various…
An elegy on Douglas Howard, daughter and heiress of Lord Howard. (Spenser, 1591.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DaphneDantesque A B C D E F G H I…
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A Sicilian shepherd who invented pastoral poetry. Daphnis. The lover of Chloe in the exquisite Greek pastoral romance of Longos, in the fourth century. Daphnis was the model of Allan…
Supposed to be an antidote against lightning, because it was the tree of Apollo. Hence Tiberius and some other of the Roman emperors wore a wreath of bay as an amulet, especially in…
Night of the Hunters: Artemis and ApolloClassical MythologyThe A Team: Olympians AllFirst in War, First in Peace: AthenaThree's a Crowd: The Olympian Love TriangleFirst of the Red-Hot Lovers:…
Villa Serbelloni, BellaggioThe fountain shivers lightly in the rain,
The laurels drip, the fading roses fall,
The marble satyr plays a mournful strain
That leaves the rainy fragrance…
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