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| − | <div style="border:medium groove #800000;padding:1em;margin:0 1em 0 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>[[Image:Apollo citharoede .jpg|right|frame|''Apollo Citharoedus'', believed to be a copy of Skopas. The cult image housed in the temple of Apollo Palatinus is also Apollo with a ''cithara''.]]
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| − | 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 only a single temple outside the ''[[pomerium]]''. He was worshiped 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 the [[Greek rite]].
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| − | 28 B.C. Apollo Palatinus: a.d. VII ID Oct. October 9
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| − | 431 B.C Apollo in pratis Flaminiis: III ID. Quinct. July 13
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| − | Ludi Apollinares: prid non -III ID Quinct. July 6-13
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| − | 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 [http://www.centralemontemartini.org/it/museo/percorso_salamacchine_apollo.htm Montemartini Museum].
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| − | During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the [[Ludi Apollinares]] were instituted in his honor.
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| − | Lyre and flute playing are a mark of the ''ritus Graecus''. During the republic, in Rome, the cult of Apollo was headed by a magister of a ''societas cantorum Graecorum''. Choral singing was also included in the Saecular Games of Augustus.
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| − | ==INSCRIPTIONS==
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| − | 141-146: Apollo, as it is prescribed for you in those books - and for this reason may every good fortune attend the Roman people, the Quirites - let sacrifice be made to you with nine popana, and nine cakes, and nine phthoes. I beg and pray. [The rest as above.] Apollo, just as I have offered popana and prayed to you with proper prayer, for this same reason be honored with these sacrificial cakes. Become favorable and propitious. [The same was said concerning the phthoes. To Diana in the same words.] <ref>{{CIL|VI|32329}}. 10 sqq. Acta Sacrorum Saecularium addition</ref>
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| − | *Gage,"Apollon Romain"
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| − | *Gage, "Apollon Imperial"
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