Apollo - Versailles, France
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Metro2
N 48° 48.499 E 002° 06.611
31U E 434667 N 5406529
Apollo is the Greek & Roman God of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts, archery, and more.
Waymark Code: WMD094
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/01/2011
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This marble sculpture is located in the Garden of the Versailles Palace. It depicts Apollo naked but for a fig leaf holding his characteristic lyre with his left hand.
Unfortunately the poster of this waymark didn't get a photo of the accompanying placard...so, the artist is unknown.
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE. The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's twin sister. At Delphi, Apollo was venerated as the slayer of Pytho. For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods. In archaic Greece he was the "prophet", the oracular god who in older times was connected with "healing". In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil."