Xenophon's Hellenica

Apollo

Family: Greek deity · Role: god · First appears: Book 4, section 7

In Book 4, section 7, Agesipolis received divine approval at Olympia to reject a holy truce he considered fraudulently antedated. On leaving Olympia, he went to Delphi and “put the same question to Apollo”; Zeus is identified as Apollo’s parent.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Agesipolis received divine approval to reject a holy truce he considered fraudulently antedated.(Book 4, section 7 · 📍 Olympia)
    • With: Agesipolis Zeus
    • “The god indicated to the inquirer that he might lawfully repudiate any holy truce which was fraudulently antedated.”

Book 4, section 7

  • with Agesipolis (Agesipolis consulted Apollo.) “Not content with this, the young king, on leaving Olympia, went at once to Delphi, and at that shrine put the same question to Apollo: ”
  • parent: Zeus

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