Apollo (Phoebus/Loxias)
“Phoebus/Loxias”
deity figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Apollo · Loxias · Phoebus · his lord · the god
in the texts
Phoenissae
Apollo, called Phoebus or Loxias, god of prophecy whose Delphic oracles to Laius and to Adrastus drive the plot.
Chorus:
Loxias gave Adrastus an oracle.
And I became the handmaid of Phoebus, dedicated like his statues of wrought gold.
Electra
The god Apollo, also called Phoebus or Loxias, whose Delphic oracle commanded Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and who is repeatedly blamed for the resulting suffering.
Orestes:
Electra:
Orestes:
Isthmean
God of prophecy, music, and the Pythian games, honored under the epithets Phoebus and Loxias throughout the odes.
And in Crisa widely powerful Apollo looked graciously on him, and gave him glory there as well.
But grant to us, Loxias, luxuriant with your golden hair, a blossoming garland also from your contests at Pytho.
indeed, with the help of the gods I shall accomplish the end of both graceful songs, honoring in the dance both Phoebus with the unshorn hair, in wave-washed Ceos with its mariners, and the sea-dividing reef of the Isthmus.