Apollo

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Apollo (Απόλλων in Ancient Greek) is the god of the sun, light, prophecy, medicine, knowledge, truth, poetry, archery, the arts, and music. He is the twin brother of Artemis. He and Artemis are known as The "twin archers". They were banned from seeing each other because they would end up harming each other.

History

Apollo is the son of Zeus and the Titaness Leto. He is also the twin brother of Artemis. When Leto was pregnant, Hera was furious and banned the mainland and the islands from letting Leto give birth on them, but the floating island of Delos (which wasn't a real island anyway) disobeyed Hera and let Leto give birth to Artemis and Apollo. Hera then sent the dragon-serpent Python to kill Leto. A three-year-old Apollo asked Hephaestus for a gold bow, and a set of arrows, which he used to kill Python. After killing the python, he became the owner of the Oracle of Delphi.

Powers

Apollo is the god of the sun, having taken over after Helios faded. He is also the God of prophecy, truth, medicine, poetry, archery, and music, which in turn means he is the God that controls the Oracle at Delphi, and oversees the ceremony in which Rachel receives the Oracle's spirit. He drives the sun. He has arrows that burn like the sun. Presumably possesses the standard powers of a God.

He is an excellent Archer

He is a good and able musician

He has the power to either heal or to do harm

He has great intellect aside from Athena

Relationship with Atremis

Apollo is fond of calling Artemis his 'little sister', but he knew that Artemis was born before him. This exasperates her. He doesn't take her seriously, and she in turn thinks he is immature and childish. However rocky their relationship is, they love each other very much, and Apollo even broke the Ancient Law and gave Percy information that would help him find Artemis when she was kidnapped, stating that "no one messes with my little sister" (note that he still calls her his little sister). It may be interesting to note that in classic Greek mythology, it is generally agreed that Artemis is the elder of the twins