Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.


Aeolus was the ruler of the winds in Greek Mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which. Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and founder of the Aeolian race; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to the Tyrrhenian Sea; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in the Odyssey as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca. All three men named Aeolus appear to be connected genealogically, although the precise relationship is often ambiguous. The traditions regarding the second and third Aeolus are especially entangled.



Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme the Wrath of Achilles. He has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy,^[1] as well as the quickest.