This source names Apollo directly: "creator Ahura Mazda as Zeus-Oromasdes, Apollo fused with Mithra as Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes, and Herakles fused with the Zoroastrian god of victory Verethragna as Artagnes-Herakles-Ares."
Source Antiochus of Commagene (Encyclopaedia Iranica)
This source names Apollo directly: "General reference article on Apollo, consulted 2026-08-11."
Source Apollo (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Apollo directly: "and the Titaness Leto, twin sister of Apollo."
Source The Homeric HymnsAnonymous; ascribed in antiquity to Homer
This source names Apollo directly: "Later myth, preserved in the Library attributed to Apollodorus, tells how Zeus pursued her as he had pursued her sister, and how Asteria, refusing him, transformed herself into a quail and flung..."
Source The Library (Bibliotheca)Pseudo-Apollodorus
Coeus, Figures This source names Apollo directly: "The Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo tells how Leto, pregnant by Zeus, was refused shelter by every land fearing Hera's jealousy, forbidden to give birth anywhere the sun touched, until the floating..."
Source TheogonyHesiod
Delos was held to be his birthplace.
Source The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th editionSimon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.)
The oracle spoke in his name.
Source The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and OperationsJoseph Fontenrose
This source names Apollo directly: "600 of them resident at the group's Apollo compound in Oregon House, California."
Source Fellowship of Friends (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Apollo directly: "Poseidon, Amphitrite, Ares, Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Artemis, Hermes, Maia, the Moirai, Nereus, Doris and Okeanos, plus the separate scene of Hephaistos riding a mule back to Olympus."
Source Florence 4209, the Francois Vase (Perseus Project Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser)
This source names Apollo directly: "Iris; Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Artemis and Hermes are named among the deities present, alongside the sea deities Amphitrite, Nereus, Doris and Okeanos and other attendant figures."
Source Florence 4209, the Francois Vase (Perseus Project Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser)
Gaia, Figures This source names Apollo directly: "source of the oracle at Delphi before Apollo, and as the mother, by Uranos's spilled blood, of the Giants and the Erinyes."
Source TheogonyHesiod
In Greek tradition griffins were sacred to Apollo, drawing his chariot and guarding the gold of the far north against the one eyed Arimaspians.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
This source names Apollo directly: "steal the cattle of his half brother Apollo, inventing the lyre from a tortoise shell along the way."
Source The Homeric HymnsAnonymous; ascribed in antiquity to Homer
This source names Apollo directly: "tempera panel from the Monastery of Apollo at Bawit, Egypt, showing Christ standing beside Abbot Mena, the monastery's fifth century superior, Christ's arm resting on the abbot's shoulder."
Source Musee du Louvre, "Le Christ et l'abbe Mena" collection record
Leto, Figures This source names Apollo directly: "no one, and there Leto bears the twins Apollo and Artemis after nine days of labor, gripping a palm tree for support."
Source The Homeric HymnsAnonymous; ascribed in antiquity to Homer
This source names Apollo directly: "as a birthday gift to her own grandson Apollo, who took from her the name Phoebus, the bright one, that he still carries."
Source The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th editionSimon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.)
This source names Apollo directly: "it represents the golden shield of Apollo with its central boss."
Source The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian CultureFrancesca Rochberg
This source names Apollo directly: "and protecting the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, funding its upkeep and administering the Pythian Games."
Source The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and OperationsJoseph Fontenrose
This source names Apollo directly: "as the substantial hymns to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes or Aphrodite, actually says, not for a settled account of its true authorship or the precise date of any individual hymn within that two-century..."
Source The Homeric HymnsAnonymous; ascribed in antiquity to Homer
Apollo leads their chorus under the title Musagetes.
This source names Apollo directly: "amid the slaying of her children by Apollo and Artemis, punishment for her boast against Leto."
Source The Punishment of Niobe, accession 2020.278 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)