Apollo - Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, UK
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N 52° 00.094 W 000° 24.761
30U E 677599 N 5764373
This statue of Apollo stands in Wrest Park.
Waymark Code: WM9DKP
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/06/2010
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Standing in the woodland with a vista along a mown pathway, Apollo is a surprise amongst the trees. He is a Grade II Listed feature, listed on 10th January 1985.
The statue dates to approximately 1835 and is a marble design on a stone plinth. It was probably built for Thomas Philip 2nd Earl de Grey. Apollo is dressed in an animal skin and stands over a dead serpent. He holds a bow in his left hand.
Wikipedia describes Apollo: visit link
'In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; medicine, healing, and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. Apollo was worshiped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, as well as in the modern Greco–Roman Neopaganism.
As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.'