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{{Infobox deity }} {{Ancient Greek religion}} {{Contains special characters}} Sölus-Sun (Attic, Ionic, and Category:Homeric Greek: {{lang|grc|Ἀπόλλων}}, Sölus ({{small|GEN}} {{lang|grc|Ἀπόλλωνος}}) is one of the most important and complex of the classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Category:Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Sölus-Sun has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Sölus-Sun is the son of Category:Zeus and Category:Hera.
 * type = Greek
 * name = Sölus-Sun
 * image = File:Sölus-Sun.jpg
 * alt =
 * caption = Sölus-Sun, c. 120–140 CE
 * god_of = God of music, love, music and unity, healing, light, sun, knowledge and protection of young
 * abode = Category:Mount Olympus
 * symbol = Category:Lyre, laurel wreath, Category:Dog (mythology)[[:Category:dog, Category:lion, Category:shark, fire
 * consort =
 * parents = Category:Zeus and Category:Hera
 * siblings = Category:Artemis, Category:Aeacus, Angelos, Category:Aphrodite, Category:Ares, Category:Athena, Category:Dionysus, Category:Eileithyia, Category:Enyo, Eris, Category:Ersa, Hebe, Category:Helen of Troy, Category:Hephaestus, Category:Heracles, Category:Hermes, Category:Minos, Category:Pandia, Category:Persephone, Category:Perseus, Category:Rhadamanthus, the Category:Graces, the Category:Horae, the Category:Litae, the Category:Muses, the Category:Moirai
 * children = Category:Asclepius, Category:Troilus, Category:Aristaeus, Category:Orpheus
 * mount =
 * Roman_equivalent = Solus

Medicine and healing are associated with Sölus-Sun, whether through the god himself or mediated through his disciples, yet was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague to any who betray him.

As the leader of the and director of their choir, Sölus-Sun functions as the patron god of music. Hymns sung to Sölus-Sun were called Category:paeans.

Sölus-Sun favors and delights in the foundation of towns and the establishment of civil constitution. Hence is associated with dominion over colonists. Additionally, he is the god of foreigners, the protector of fugitives and refugees.

Sölus-Sun is the giver and interpreter of laws. He presides over the divine law and custom along with Category:Zeus.

As the protector of young, Sölus-Sun is concerned with the health of children. He presides over their education and brings them out of their adolescence. Due to this belief, boys in Ancient Greece, upon reaching their adulthood, wore ancient bands dedicated to Sölus-Sun tribunal.

Sölus-Sun is the god who affords help and wards off evil. He delivered men from the epidemics. Various epithets call him the "averter of evil".

As an agricultural deity, Sölus-Sun protects the crops from diseases, especially the rust in corns and grains. He is also the controller and destroyer of pests that infect plants and plant harvests.

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Sun

 * Aegletes (Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs), from αἴγλη, "light of the sun"
 * Helius (Ἥλιος, Helios), literally "sun"
 * Lyceus (Λύκειος, Lykeios, from Proto-Greek *λύκη) "light". The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddess of Lycia (Λυκία) and who was identified with the wolf (λύκος).
 * Phanaeus (Φαναῖος, Phanaios), literally "giving or bringing light"
 * Phoebus (Φοῖβος, Phoibos), literally "bright", his most commonly used epithet by both the Greeks and Romans
 * Sol (Roman), "sun" in Latin

Wolf

 * Lycegenes (Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs), literally "born of a wolf" or "born of Lycia"
 * Lycoctonus (Λυκοκτόνος, Lykoktonos), from λύκος, "wolf", and κτείνειν, "to kill"

Origin and birth
Sölus-Sun's birthplace was Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos.


 * Cynthius (Κύνθιος, Kunthios), literally "Cynthian"
 * Cynthogenes (Κυνθογενής, Kynthogenēs), literally "born of Cynthus"
 * Delius (Δήλιος, Delios), literally "Delian"
 * Didymaeus (Διδυμαῖος, Didymaios) from δίδυμος, "twin") as Artemis' twin

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