"Know Thyself ": The Role of Apollo in Greek Life and Literature The figure of Apollo has been supremely influential in Greek life and literature since the beginning of Greek civilization, and has resonated throughout history to both modern religion and psychology. The derivation of the name "Apol...

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The poet Homer's 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. ... Years went on and no one had written any stories down, but later two men Homer and Hesiod transmitted all the stories they knew into one, they had transmitted stories, poems, songs, and beliefs into one book called the Lliad. ...

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