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As the descendant of Zeus (the world's greatest lawgiver), Apollo was the supreme god of law and order in the Greek world. His mother Leto was the goddess of childbirth and the rule of law, and it was she who taught him to sing, though it was Dionysus, god of the grapevine, who taught him to play the lyre. Though he was the god of law and order, Apollo was also the god of love, war, music, prophecy and poetry. His sister was the huntress Artemis, and together with their brother Hermes they were the children of Zeus and Leto, the triple goddess of childbirth, the moon and the hunt. Apollo's role was to guard the city of Troy and keep the peace between the Greeks and the Trojans.
At the time of the Trojan War, the Greek hero Aeneas led the expedition to Troy. Aeneas was the son of the Trojan king Priam and King Anchises. He was given the task of taking nine of the Trojan nobility, including Priam, to safety in Italy after the sack of Troy. In order to gain the favour of Apollo, the god had Aeneas take the invader, Odysseus, with him to the temple of Apollo in Delphi. There the god granted Aeneas a vision of his future. He was told of battles and great losses, and would lose his throne.
As Apollo took over from his father Zeus, so he was the son of Leto who had previously taken over from her father, Uranus. The poet Hesiod tells of the blood feud between Apollo and Ares, the son of Uranus and Terra, the earth goddess. Apollo first became involved in the story when he laid claim to the land of Ilium, where he had been born, and the city of Troy. Ares, then in the form of a baby, was left out in the cold with a donkey and an olive tree to protect him from being trampled to death by the horses and chariots of the Trojans. Apollo, not understanding the dangers of being born into a foreign city, took the baby, son of his sister Artemis, down to Mount Olympus, where he hatched him from his own egg and then raised him as his own. Out of respect for his adoptive father, Ares agreed to give up the land of Troy and the city of Ilium to the god.
The earliest and most famous of the Olympians to suffer a violent end was Hephaestus, the blacksmith of the gods, who tried to usurp Zeus' throne in a plot with the Titans. Zeus punished him by mutilating his body and imprisoning him in Tartarus, an ominous sign that the king of gods was no longer dealing fairly with his subjects. Zeus' treatment of Hephaestus may also reflect the jealousy he felt for Hephaestus' skill at metallurgy and his rivalry with Hephaestus' great invention, the fire-breathing dragon, which the god had bound under his heel. When Zeus finally set him free, however, Hephaestus was apportioned a seat on Olympus, the highest of the hills where the gods met. The Athenian playwright Euripides chose Hephaestus as a central figure in his tragedy Hecuba and included in the play was a long monologue in which Hephaestus explains how his constant imprisonment (which saw him at one time living under the earth and at another in a mere cell) has led him to develop a wry sense of humour. To Hephaestus, the god of fire and the metals, life itself was a joke. 827ec27edc