Apollo
quoted 49 times by 14 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Apollo the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
34 quoted · 15 reported
35 neutral 5 refuted 5 endorsedin the voice of Hermes 6 , Chorus 4 , Creusa 4 , Athena 3 , Zeus 3 , Chryses 2 , Oedipus 2 , Orestes 2 , Aeneas 1 , Artemis 1
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in the voice of Chryses
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Iliad Homer 13 neutral 13 citations · 14 passages
book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 7 · book 15 2 passages anchored here · book 16 2 passages anchored here · book 20 · book 21 4 passages anchored here · book 23 · book 24Chryses' prayer for vengeance is rendered as direct speech addressed to Apollo.
"Chryses," said he, "King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives.
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in the voice of Creusa
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Ion Euripides 1 neutral 1 refuted 4 endorsed 8 citations · 14 passages
Creusa swears a solemn oath by Athena that no mortal but Apollo is Ion's true father.
My former blame of Phoebus now is turned to praise, because he now restores to me the babe whom erst he slighted.
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in the voice of Hermes
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Hymn 4 to Hermes Homeric Hymns 6 neutral 6 citations · 11 passages
Hermes answers Apollo with direct deceptive speech.
and Phoebus Apollo took it, and readily put his shining whip in Hermes' hand, and ordained him keeper of herds.
hymn 4 to hermes ¶ -
in the voice of Oedipus
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Oedipus Tyrannus Sophocles 4 neutral 4 citations · 5 passages
Oedipus reports the purpose of consulting Apollo's oracle.
Creon, Menoeceus’ son, to Apollo’s Pythian residence to learn what we might do or say to protect this city.
oedipus tyrannus ¶ -
in the voice of Death
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Alcestis Euripides 1 refuted 1 endorsed 3 citations · 41 passages
Death directly answers and refutes each of Apollo's arguments, asserting his customary rights over the dying.
Wert thou not content to hinder the death of Admetus, by thy knavish cunning baulking Destiny?
alcestis ¶ -
in the voice of Orestes
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Electra Euripides 3 refuted 3 citations · 19 passages
Orestes and Electra recall and question the content of Apollo's oracle commanding the matricide.
Where Apollo is a fool, who are the wise?
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in the voice of Croesus
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The Histories Herodotus 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
A direct invocation by Croesus addressed to Apollo while on the burning pyre.
Then the Lydians say that Croesus understood Cyrus ' change of heart, and when he saw everyone trying to extinguish the fire but unable to check it, he invoked Apollo, crying out that if Apollo had ever been given any pleasing gift by him, let him offer help and deliver him from the present evil.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of the narrator
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Odyssey Homer 2 neutral 2 citations
The narrative reports Apollo's earlier oracular prophecy to Agamemnon, matching the citation of the Pytho oracle.
But Agamemnon was glad in his noos when he heard his chieftains quarreling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle.
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in the voice of Telphusa
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Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo Homeric Hymns 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
Telphusa's deceptive counsel is quoted directly.
Then you went towards Telphusa:
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in the voice of Messenians
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Archidamus Isocrates 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
The passage reports the Messenian appeal to the oracle.
That oracle, moreover, which all would acknowledge to be the most ancient and the most widely accepted and the most trustworthy in existence, recognized Messene as ours, not only at the time when it commanded us to receive the country as a gift from the sons of Cresphontes and to go to the aid of the wronged, but also later, when the war dragged on and both sides sent delegations to Delphi, the Me …
archidamus ¶ -
in the voice of Second Semi-Chorus
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Birds Aristophanes 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The Second Semi-Chorus performs a direct sung hymn describing swans honoring Apollo, extending the play's motif of birds as rivals/companions to the gods.
Second Semi-Chorus:
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in the voice of the god (Apollo)
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation
Apollo's refusal is explicitly grounded in a reported statement: 'saying they were his suppliants.'
But Apollo, doubtless, did not allow the man of Cyme to take the nestlings from the precinct, saying they were his suppliants.
oration 31 ¶ -
in the voice of Messenger
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Andromache Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The Messenger closes his account by questioning how the god who gives oracles to others can be called wise after taking such vengeance.
This is how that prince who vouchsafeth oracles to others, that judge of what is right for all the world, hath revenged himself on Achilles’ son, remembering his ancient quarrel as a wicked man would.
andromache ¶ -
in the voice of Chorus
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Rhesus Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation · 8 passages
A direct choral prayer/invocation addressed to a god, quoted as sung speech.
CHORUS.
rhesus ¶
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