- Alternative names
- Sanctuary of Apollo on Delos
- Information
- sanctuary of Apollo on island in the Aegean
- Alternative name
- 🌍 Asteria (alt. Delos) 🌍 Ortygia (alt. Delos)
- Identified with
- 🌍 Ortygia (unlocatable)
- Cult site of
- 👤 Anios (Delian) 👤 Apollo 👤 Eileithyia
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis
- Place of death of
- 👤 Opis 👤 Hecaerge 👤 the Serpent of Hera 👤 Loxo 👤 Thasos (Delian)
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Aias (the lesser)
- Transformed from
- 👤 Asteria (eponym)
- Created by
- 👤 Poseidon
- Games established by
- 👤 Theseus
- Named by
- 👤 Leto
- Personification
- 👤 Delos
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Aphrodite (Daidalian) 🏛️ the Olive Tree (Delos) 🏛️ the Palm Tree (Delos)
- Encompases
- 🌍 River Inopos (Delos) 🏛️ the Olive Tree (Delos) 🏛️ the Temple of Apollo at Delos 🏛️ the Altar of Horns at Delos 🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos) 🏛️ the Palm Tree (Delos) 🏛️ the Altar of Apollo at Delos 🏛️ the Sacred Lake (Delos)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aias (the lesser) 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Anios (Delian) 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 🏺 the Argo 👥 the Argonauts 👤 Ariadne 👤 Artemis 👤 Asteria (eponym) 👥 the Charites 👤 Dione (Titan) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Eos 👤 Erysichthon (s. of Cecrops) 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Hera 👤 Ouranos 👤 Poseidon 👤 Rhea 👤 Themis 👤 Zeus 👤 Iris 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 👤 Lachesis 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Naxos (island) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 🌍 the Acropolis of Athens 👤 Theseus 👤 Orion (hunter) 👤 Palamedes 👤 Pan (god) 👥 the Muses 👤 Leto 👤 Niobe (Theban) 👤 Odysseus 👥 the Oinotrophoi 👤 Opis 👤 Styx (Oceanid) 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy 👤 Thetis 👤 Triton (sea god) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 🏺 the Lyre of Apollo 🌍 Cape Geraistos (Euboia) 🌍 the Icarian Sea 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Phocaia (Ionia) 🌍 Colophon (Ionia) 🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor) 🌍 Boiotia 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Cos (island) 🌍 Rhoiteion (Troad) 🌍 Scyros (island) 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 the Echinades (islands) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Ephesos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Mount Parthenion (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Oita (Thessaly) 🌍 Samos (island) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 👥 the Pelasgians 🌍 Asteria (alt. Delos) 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Chios (island) 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 Thessaly 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Ossa (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia) 🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica) 🌍 River Anauros (Thessaly) 🌍 Corcyra (island) 🌍 Aigina (island) 🌍 River Asopos (Boiotia) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Spring and River Dirce (Thebes) 👥 the Children of Niobe 🌍 River Ismenos (Thebes) 🌍 Samothrace (island) 🌍 River Parthenios (Paphlagonia) 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 🌍 River Xanthos (Lycia) 🌍 Chalcis (Euboia) 🌍 Helice (Achaia) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 Pheneos (Arcadia) 🌍 Crapathos (island) 🌍 Cos (city) 🌍 River Peneios (Thessaly) 👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios) 🌍 Claros (Ionia) 🌍 the Cyclades Islands 🌍 Mount Helicon (Boiotia) 👤 Eros 🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly) 👥 the Olympian Gods 🌍 Imbros (island) 🌍 Mount Athos (Chalcidice) 👤 Achaeia 👤 Hecaerge 🌍 River Inopos (Delos) 🌍 Boura (Achaia) 🌍 Achaia (Peloponnese) 👥 the Hyperboreans 🏺 the Statue of Eileithyia 🏛️ the Temple of Eileithyia at Athens 🌍 Agrai (Attica) 🌍 Malis (Thessaly) 🌍 the Aegean Sea 🌍 Larisa (Thessaly) 🌍 the Saronic Gulf 🌍 Calaureia (island) 🌍 Ortygia (island) 👤 Olen 🌍 Tempe (Thessaly) 🌍 Cnidos (Cyprus) 👤 Hierophile 🌍 Mount Corycos (Ionia) 🌍 Aigai (Achaia) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Aphrodite (Daidalian) 🏛️ the Olive Tree (Delos) 👥 the Final Athenian Tribute 🌍 Ortygia (unlocatable) 🌍 River Helicon (Macedonia) 🏛️ the Altar of Horns at Delos 🌍 Xanthos (Lycia) 🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos) 🌍 Eiresiai (unlocatable) 🌍 Peparethos (island) 🌍 Autocane (Ionia) 🌍 Mount Aisagee (unlocatable) 🌍 Rhenaia (island) 👤 Delos 🌍 the Lelantine Plain (Euboia) 🌍 Pagasai (Thessaly) 🏛️ the Palm Tree (Delos) 🏛️ the Altar of Apollo at Delos 👥 the Arimaspians 🏺 the Chariot of Helios 👤 Dorippe 🌍 Ceos (island) 👤 Branchos (Milesian) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis at Didyma (Asia Minor) 👤 the Serpent of Hera 🌍 River Strophie 🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly) 🌍 River Pactolos (Lydia) 👤 Loxo 🌍 Ira 👤 Hesperos (personification) 👤 Acontios 🌍 Ioulis (Ceos) 👤 Cydippe (Naxian) 🌍 the Rhipean Mountains (unlocatable) 🌍 Ortygia (alt. Delos) 🌍 Mount Dindymon (near Cyzicos) 🌍 Mount Rhodope (Thrace) 🌍 the Taurus Mountains 🌍 the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona (Epeiros) 🌍 the Alps 👤 Thasos (Delian) 👥 the Horses of Helios 🌍 Mount Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 the Apennine Mountains 👤 Acoetes 👥 the Companions of Acoetes 🏛️ Spring Melite (Lycian) 🏛️ the Sacred Lake (Delos)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.4.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.4.5 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.4.4 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 373-407 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 569-591 📖 Pausanias 1.18.5 📖 Pausanias 1.19.6 📖 Pausanias 1.31.2 📖 Pausanias 1.43.4 📖 Pausanias 8.23.5 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 21.1 📖 Homer, Odyssey 6.160-6.188 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 1-18 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 25-49 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 50-90 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 91-126 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 179-181 📖 Dionysios, Periegesis 520-530 📖 Pausanias 5.7.6-5.7.10 📖 Pausanias 8.48.2-8.48.3 📖 Pausanias 10.12.1-10.12.8 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 21.1-21.2 📖 Sophocles, Aias 693-730 📖 Cypria fr. 26 West 📖 Bacchylides, Odes 3 📖 Bacchylides, Odes 11 📖 Bacchylides fr. 1a 📖 Bacchylides fr. 65 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 9.1-9.2 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 10 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 55-68 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 11-27 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 28-54 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 55-205 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 196-214 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 249-274 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 275-299 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 300-315 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 18 Harder 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 35 Harder 📖 Lucian, The Double Indictment 1 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 67 Harder 📖 Lucian, The Dance 38 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 186 Harder 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 1-16 📖 Pindar, Pythian 1 29-40 📖 Pindar, Pythian 9 1-70 📖 Pindar, Nemean 1 1-18 📖 Timocreon fr. 727 PMG 📖 Pindar, Isthmian 1 1-40 📖 Pindar fr. 33a-d Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 52b Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 52e Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 52h Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 52m Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 140a Snell-Maehler 📖 Pomponius Mela 3.37 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.9 📖 Strabo 8.6.14 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.146-6.203 📖 Strabo 10.5.2 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.313-6.381 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.438-1.472 📖 Ovid, Ibis 477-478 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.511-3.733 📖 Vergil, Eclogues 7 📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.1-3.39 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 75 Harder 📖 Callimachus, Iambi 12 = fr. 202-202a Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus, Lyric Poems fr. 229 Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus fr. 733 Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus fr. 664 Pfeiffer 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 35 ⚒️ Hymn to Apollo by Limenios at the Athenian Treasury at Delphi (Delphi 489; PHI 239435; PHI 238501)
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Dionysios, Periegesis Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Cypria Plutarch, Theseus Pausanias Pindar Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Sophocles, Aias Strabo Bacchylides, Odes Bacchylides Callimachus, Aetia Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods Lucian, On Sacrifices Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Lucian, The Double Indictment Lucian, The Dance Pindar, Pythian 1 Pindar, Pythian 9 Pindar, Nemean 1 Timocreon Pindar, Isthmian 1 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Ibis Callimachus Ovid, Metamorphoses Vergil, Eclogues Vergil, Georgics Callimachus, Iambi Callimachus, Lyric Poems
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Olen 📖 Melanopos unnumbered fr. 📖 Pindar fr. 33a-d Snell-Maehler 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 150 📖 Xenomedes fr. 1 Fowler 📖 Nicander, Heteroeumena fr. 61 Gow-Scholfield 📖 Menecrates of Xanthos FGrHist 769 fr. 2
- Relevant to local traditions reported from of
- 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Alexandria (Troad)
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Leto 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 River Inopos (Delos) 👤 Hierophile
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 1.18.5 📖 Pausanias 2.5.3 📖 Pausanias 10.12.1-10.12.8