Apollo

Also known as: Oros / Phoebus · Family: Egyptian · Role: god · First appears: Book 1 · §84–88

In the account of Egypt’s last god-kings, Apollo is called Oros, son of Osiris, whom the Greeks identified with Dionysos. Oros deposed Typhon and became the last god-king of Egypt.

At Buto, Leto received Apollo from Isis and concealed and protected him from Typhon; another account names Dionysos and Demeter as his parents. The city had oracles of Apollo and several other gods, while Leto’s oracle there was held in especially high honour. Much later, at Metapontion, Aristeas appeared and instructed the people to build an altar to Apollo and set up a statue bearing Aristeas’s name; they carried out his commands. Other traditions connect Apollo with Croesus and say he flayed Marsyas.

Relationship record

Life events

• Oros deposed Typhon and became king over Egypt.(Book 2 · §144–149 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Typhon
  • “and the last of them who was king over Egypt was Oros the son of Osiris, whom the Hellenes call Apollo: he was king over Egypt last, having deposed Typhon.”
• Oros, son of Osiris, became the last god-king of Egypt.(Book 2 · §144–149 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Osiris
  • “and the last of them who was king over Egypt was Oros the son of Osiris, whom the Hellenes call Apollo: he was king over Egypt last”
• Osiris was identified with Dionysos in the Greek language.(Book 2 · §144–149)
  • With: Osiris Dionysos
  • “Now Osiris in the tongue of Hellas is Dionysos.”
• Psammetichos received an oracle that vengeance would come when bronze men appeared from the sea.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 the city of Buto)
  • With: Psammetichos Leto
  • “there was given to him the reply that vengeance would come when men of bronze appeared from the sea.”
• Leto received Apollo from Isis and concealed and protected him from Typhon.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Buto)
  • With: Leto Demeter Typhon
  • “Leto, being one of the eight gods who came into existence first, and dwelling in the city of Buto where she has this Oracle, received Apollo from Isis as a charge and preserved him, concealing him in the island which is said now to be a floating island”
• Aristeas appeared and told the people to set up an altar of Apollo and a statue bearing his name.(Book 4 · §10–17 · 📍 Metapontion)
  • With: Aristeas
  • “The people of Metapontion say that Aristeas himself appeared in their land and bade them set up an altar of Apollo and place by its side a statue bearing the name of Aristeas of Proconnesos”
• The Metapontines followed the oracle's instruction and carried out Aristeas's commands.(Book 4 · §10–17 · 📍 Metapontion)
  • With: Aristeas
  • “They therefore accepted this answer and performed the commands”