# Apollo — The City of God character guide

> Apollo in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Cuman Apollo

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Roman god of prophecy, music, and healing, associated with the Sibyl and oracles.

## In the story

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

God from whom Lycurgus claimed authority for Spartan laws.

### [Whether the gods, whom the Greeks and Romans worshipped in common, were justified in permitting the destruction of Ilium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

God who, according to myth, helped build Troy's walls and was cheated by Laomedon.

### [Of the statue of Apollo at Cumae, whose tears are supposed to have portended disaster to the Greeks, whom the god was unable to succour.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi)

The Cuman Apollo statue wept for four days, portending disaster for the Greeks.

### [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii)

Delivered an ambiguous oracle to Pyrrhus regarding his war with Rome.

### [Concerning the many gods whom the pagan doctors defend as being one and the same Jove](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi)

Mentioned as Jupiter in divination

### [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi)

Mentioned as a god invoked for healing, which Augustine says is unnecessary if felicity is present.

### [Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the other select gods whom they would have to be parts of the world](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Identified by pagans as the sun, a diviner, and physician, yet also a part of the world.

### [The Founding of Athens and Varro's Account of Its Name](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-ix)

Delphic Apollo consulted by the king about the prodigies of the olive tree and water.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x)

Apollo dared not judge the contest between Neptune and Minerva for the naming of Athens.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii)

Apollo is mentioned as the son of Latona, who fed the flocks of king Admetus with Hercules.

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