This article is about the book character. You may be looking for the movie character of the same name. Apollo , known as Lester Papadopoulos in his most recent human form during the Trials of Apollo , is the Greek god of the sun, light, healing, disease, plague, music, art, poetry, archery , reason, knowledge, truth, and prophecy.
He is the twin brother of the goddess Artemis , and they are together known as the "twin archers". He is the main protagonist and narrator of The Trials of Apollo series and one of the supporting characters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series.
Apollo used to drive the Sun around the Earth in his chariotβa responsibility he took on when Helios , the original sun-god, faded after he was downsized by the Romans. As punishment for encouraging his legacy Octavian to pursue his perilous approach to conflict, Apollo is cast down from Olympus by his father, Zeus ; stripped of his godhood, he becomes human for the third time.
Alongside his new master Meg McCaffrey , Apollo is sent on a quest to secure the Oracles and is expected to have to face his old nemesis Python to become a god again. After erasing Python from existence, Apollo is restored to godhood. He bears the same name as his Roman counterpart.
When Leto was pregnant, Hera was furious with Zeus' unfaithfulness and forbade the Titan from giving birth on either the islands or mainlands. Fortunately, the floating Isle of Delos gave sanctuary to Leto, and through the help of all the goddesses, who begged Hera to allow Eileithyia who's also her daughter the goddess of childbirth, to come to Leto, she finally gave birth to the goddess Artemis and, nine days later, Apollo. A four-day-old Apollo petitioned Hephaestus for a golden bow and a set of arrows which he used to kill Python , a dragon that was previously sent by Hera to chase his mother, Leto.
