Daphne

The Arrows and Ardor of Apollo, The Sun God

MartiniF
MartiniF
October
06
/ 2020
Apollo driving the Chariot of the sun and his muses by Giovanni Battista Maderna, IItalian, Verona (1758–1803) Metropolitan Museum of Art (Anton biederwolf/ CC BY-SA 4.0)

The sun god Apollo has been identified as the embodiment of the Hellenic spirit, by Scottish classical scholar W.K. C. Guthrie in his 1950 book, The Greeks and their Gods. An eternally youthful deity and a favorite among later poets