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Things Not Generally Known: Apollo

Esculapius, son of Apollo and Coronis, or as some say of Apollo and Larissa, daughter of Phlegias, was the god of medicine.

Ajax, son of Telamon and Peribœa, or Eribœa, was one of the bravest of the Greeks in the Trojan war.

Albion, son of Neptune and Amphitrite, came into Britain, where he established a kingdom, and introduced astrology and the art of building ships. Great Britain is called "Albion" after him.

Alecto. One of the furies. She is represented with her head covered with serpents and breathing vengence, war, and pestilence.

Amphion, son of Jupiter and Antiope. He cultivated poetry, and made such progress in music that he is said to have been the inventor of it, and to have built the walls of Thebes by the sound of his lyre.