Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-3146930-20140303051452/@comment-6679136-20140310235517

Jack Firesword wrote: Centurios wrote:

Darkcloud1111 wrote:

Centurios wrote: Apollo and Hermes were never at odds with each other, if you ignore Hermes' theft. Apollo and Hermes were considered the closest of friends, with Apollo telling him that he is the dearest of the Olympians to him. Well they start out as being at odds. Anyway, as far as some of your other comments go, I would have to disagree on a few points. While knowing your mythology is a good thing, Apollo in the series is obviously not the Apollo in mythology. He is a laid back guy that listens to bad music and makes even worse poetry. He also hasn't really been shown using any kind of fire abilities of his own outside of his chariot. As far as lasers and light go, Apollo is the god of light, but that could just mean he can control the light of the sun. Iris for example also controls light, as rainbows are made of the full spectrum of white light. So there are different forms of light out there.

Anyway, as far as the series goes we have seen Hermes appear much more intimidating then Apollo. While you are right about the differences between Apollo of mythology and the Apollo of the series, their differences seem to be mainly personality wise, not really on their abilities (except the bad poetry). Also, in the singer of apollo, when the celadon sings a hymn to apollo, percy catches the words apollo and golden fire, which causes the celadon to radiate intense heat, enough the cause all the people, except percy and grover, to pass out due to heat exhaustion. It would be weird if a song to the god created intense heat and flames while the god cant. Also, when he first appeared in the same short story, all the grass around where he appeared hissed and burned, causing smoke to rise up from everywhere, and he wasnt with his chariot, which mens he can use fire abilities. As for light, he is the god of light, hence his name Phoebus, which is mentioned in the series and means shining or radiant and he was the god of light before he got Helios' job. Also, Percy mentions Hyperion as radiating light similar to that of Apollo, and Apollo's armor is described as fiery and blinding. So this shows he can control light and fire outside of control of sun, it is just that since we never see him actually fight, except when he set Typhon's clothes on fire, and we never actually see all the powers of a child of apollo since none have been a major or otherwise prominent character (except Octavian, but he is a legacy, so he doesnt really count, being a lot weaker than a half blood.) In Hellenic Religion, where is it stated that Apollo is the god of light (not PJO)? His name meant "radiant" or "shining", which is why he got confused with Helios by later Greeks and Romans. In the Orphic hymns, he is mentioned as having "light-producing eyes" and in the homeric hymns he is mentioned as glowing with light as he plays his lyre. He is also mentioned as god of light by the Greek poet Callimachus and his other name, Aigletes, means shining and radiant. Also, the name Lykeious given to Apollo can be interpreted as meaning God of Light.