An Etruscan god borrowed from the Greek pantheon (→ Apollon), latterly specified as god of thunder and lightning. He is pictured as naked except for a mantle which covers part of his body; on his head is a wreath of laurel and he holds in his...

In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων — Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων — Apellōn), is one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been...