Apollo

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §391-407 Apollo

  God of poetry, prophecy, and the lyre; 'Apollo the singer' patronizes the bard's art.

• The Secular Hymn §1-4 Phoebus

  Apollo, god of the sun, prophecy, healing, and song; with his sister Diana the divine pair of the new Palatine cult, to whom the hymn is chiefly addressed.

• The Odes §1.2 augur Apollo

  Apollo as god of prophecy, one of the deities who might descend to expiate Rome's guilt.

• The Odes §1.7 Apollo

  God of prophecy, whose oracle promises Teucer a new homeland.

• The Odes §1.10 Apollo

  Whom the infant Mercury robbed of his cattle and his quiver, making him laugh.

• The Odes §1.12 Phoebus

  Apollo, 'dread with his unerring shaft.'

• The Odes §1.16 the Pythian dweller

  Apollo at his Delphic shrine, whose god-possession the priestess feels.

• The Odes §1.21 the unshorn Cynthian

  Apollo, born on Mount Cynthus on Delos, with his long, uncut hair.

• The Odes §1.21 Apollo

  Honored for his quiver and the lyre of his brother — here meaning his own attributes.

• The Odes §1.31 Apollo

  The newly dedicated god (on the Palatine) of whom the bard asks not wealth but contentment.

• The Odes §1.31 son of Latona

  Apollo, asked to grant the poet health, a sound mind, and a not-unmusical old age.

• The Odes §1.32 Phoebus

  Apollo, glory of whose lyre the shell (tortoise-lyre) is; welcome at Jupiter's feasts.

• The Odes §2.10 Apollo

  Who does not always bend his bow, but sometimes rouses the silent Muse with the lyre.

• The Odes §3.3 Phoebus

  Even were he to rebuild Troy's bronze wall thrice, Juno's Argives would raze it.

• The Odes §3.4 Phoebus

  His cithara is one instrument Calliope may choose; Apollo also fights the Giants below.

• The Odes §3.4 Apollo

  Never laying down his bow, he stands with the gods against the Giants.

• The Odes §3.21 Phoebus

  The dawn-sun who at last 'routs the stars.'

• The Odes §4.2 Apollo's

  Pindar is 'worthy of Apollo's laurel' in every mode he sings.

• The Odes §4.6 Phoebus

  Giver of breath, art, and 'the name of poet' to Horace; leader of the festal chorus.

• The Odes §4.15 Phoebus

  Who 'rebuked' the poet with his lyre from attempting epic of war.

• The Epistles §1.3 Apollo

  God of poetry and prophecy; 'so Apollo saved me' wryly invokes the patron of poets as the deus ex machina who delivers Horace from the Bore.

• The Epodes §15 Apollo

  God of the sun and of poetry; his 'unshorn hair' stirred by the breeze figures the calm sworn to outlast the lovers' vow.

• The Satires §1.9 Apollo saved me

  Apollo, god of poetry; the mock-epic close casts the poets' patron as the divine rescuer who frees Horace from the Bore.