Apollo In Greek Mythology

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Apollo is the younger twin brother of the goddess Artemis and the son of Zeus, king of gods, and the Titan Leto, goddess of motherhood. Apollo’s story begins like many in Greek mythology, with jealousy, monsters and curses. Legend has it that even though Zeus married Hera after he had already impregnated Leto, Hera was still jealous of Leto. She forced Leto out of Olympus and sent a snake-like dragon, called Python, after her. She then put a curse on Leto that would prevent her from ever finding land on which she could rest to give birth to her children. Luckily for Leto, she found the floating rocky island Delos, which (because it was a floating island) did not count as “land”. She was able to give birth first to Artemis and then to

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