Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

APOLLO AND THE LAUREL TREE

pollo was a young and handsome Greek god. He lived with his father, Zeus, and the other gods on Mount Olympus, almost 10,000 feet above the earth in the clouds. Apollo was one of the best loved of all the gods. As the god of music and poetry, prophecy and medicine, he came to Earth often to play the lyre and to sing and to show people how to heal the sick. Apollo was also an expert archer—and he was

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