Cultus Apollinis
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<div style="border:medium groove #800000;padding:1em">Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bore Apollon and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven. <br />-Hesiod, Theogony 920</div> | <div style="border:medium groove #800000;padding:1em">Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bore Apollon and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven. <br />-Hesiod, Theogony 920</div> | ||
| − | Apollo is the ancient Greek god of healing, oracles and inspiration. He had no indigenous Roman counterpart, and | + | Apollo is the ancient Greek god of healing, oracles and inspiration. He had no indigenous Roman counterpart, and until the end of the republic remained a foreign god with a temple outside the pomerium. He was worshipped in Rome primarily as Apollo Medicus, Apollo the healer. Apollo was actually quite a minor god in Italy and did not become popular until the advent of Augustus who built a magnificent temple on the Palatine to him. His cult was supervised by the decemviri sacris faciundis in ritu graecu. |
Dedication days, dies natalis, for his Temples: | Dedication days, dies natalis, for his Temples: | ||
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Ludi Apollinares: prid non -III ID Quinct. July 6-13 | Ludi Apollinares: prid non -III ID Quinct. July 6-13 | ||
| − | + | Here is a picture of a copy of the cult image housed in the temple of Apollo Palatinus . It is Apollo with a cithara: | |
[[Image:Apollo_citharoede_jpg|left|Apollo Citharoede]] | [[Image:Apollo_citharoede_jpg|left|Apollo Citharoede]] | ||
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-Hesiod, Theogony 920
Apollo is the ancient Greek god of healing, oracles and inspiration. He had no indigenous Roman counterpart, and until the end of the republic remained a foreign god with a temple outside the pomerium. He was worshipped in Rome primarily as Apollo Medicus, Apollo the healer. Apollo was actually quite a minor god in Italy and did not become popular until the advent of Augustus who built a magnificent temple on the Palatine to him. His cult was supervised by the decemviri sacris faciundis in ritu graecu.
Dedication days, dies natalis, for his Temples:
28 B.C. Apollo Palatinus: a.d. VII ID Oct. October 9
431 B.C Apollo in pratis Flaminiis: III ID. Quinct. July 13
Festivals: Ludi Apollinares: prid non -III ID Quinct. July 6-13
Here is a picture of a copy of the cult image housed in the temple of Apollo Palatinus . It is Apollo with a cithara:
In 430 BCE, the Temple of Apollo Medicus was dedicated to Apollo on account of a plague. Located near the Theater of Marcellus, three fluted white marble Corinthian columns of this temple were re-erected in modern times. Fragments of this temple are found in the Montemartini Museum.
During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares were instituted in his honor.
