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Apollo (Roman name Apollo) Apollo was the god of prophesy, music and healing. He never hesitated to intervene with human affairs. He helped to kill Achilles at the after the Trojan War. Achilles had defeated Hector of Troy, and Apollo help Hector's brother, Paris, shoot Achilles with an arrow. When somebody died suddenly, he or she was said to be struck down by one of Apollo's arrows. In Homer's epic of the Trojan War, Apollo rains arrows down on a Greek camp. Because he is the god of music, he was very skilled at playing the lyre and the lute. He won music competitions while playing the lyre defeating Pan. King Midas had said he preferred Pan's music, so Apollo turned Midas's ears into donkey ears. Apollo & Daphne by //Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)// Apollo tended by the nymphs by Francois Girardon (1628-1710)

