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===Female lovers=== [[File:Robert Sanderson - Apollo and the Muses.jpg|thumb|Apollo and the Muses, by Robert Sanderson]] Apollo is said to have been the lover of all nine [[Muses]], and not being able to choose one of them, he decided to remain unwed. He fathered the [[Corybantes]] by the Muse [[Thalia (Muse)|Thalia]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D3%3Asection%3D4 1.3.4].</ref> By [[Calliope]], he had [[Hymenaios]], [[Ialemus]], [[Orpheus]]<ref>Asclepiades, Tragoidoumena 6 (from Scholia ad Pindari Pythia 4.313a)</ref> and [[Linus (Thracian)|Linus]]. Alternatively, Linus was said to be the son of Apollo and either [[Urania]] or [[Terpsichore]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} In the Great Eoiae that is attributed to [[Hesiod]], Scylla is the daughter of Apollo and Hecate.<ref>Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 828</ref> [[Cyrene (mythology)|Cyrene]] was a Thessalian princess whom Apollo loved. In her honor, he built the city Cyrene and made her its ruler. She was later granted longevity by Apollo who turned her into a nymph. The couple had two sons, [[Aristaeus]], and [[Idmon]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} [[Evadne]] was a nymph daughter of Poseidon and a lover of Apollo. They had a son, [[Iamos]]. During the time of the childbirth, Apollo sent [[Eileithyia]], the goddess of childbirth to assist her. [[Rhoeo]], a princess of the island of Naxos was loved by Apollo. Out of affection for her, Apollo turned her sisters into goddesses. On the island Delos she bore Apollo a son named [[Anius]]. Not wanting to have the child, she entrusted the infant to Apollo and left. Apollo raised and educated the child on his own.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Ourea, a daughter of [[Poseidon]], fell in love with Apollo when he and Poseidon were serving the Trojan king [[Laomedon]]. They both united on the day the walls of [[Troy]] were built. She bore to Apollo a son, whom Apollo named Ileus, after the city of his birth, Ilion ([[Troy]]). Ileus was very dear to Apollo.<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Tzetzes]]' ''Exegesis in Iliadem'' 1.126 [= Hesiod ''Catalogue of Women'' fr. 83].</ref> [[Thero (mythology)|Thero]], daughter of [[Phylas]], a maiden as beautiful as the moonbeams, was loved by the radiant Apollo, and she loved him in return. Through their union, she became the mother of Chaeron, who was famed as "the tamer of horses". He later built the city [[Chaeronea]].<ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 9</ref> Hyrie or Thyrie was the mother of [[Cycnus (son of Apollo)|Cycnus]]. Apollo turned both the mother and son into swans when they jumped into a lake and tried to kill themselves.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#12 12]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0074%3Abook%3D7%3Acard%3D350 7.350]; Smith 1873, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DC%3Aentry+group%3D40%3Aentry%3Dcycnus-bio-1 s.v. Cycnus (1)].</ref> [[Hecuba]] was the wife of King [[Priam]] of [[Troy]], and Apollo had a son with her named [[Troilus]]. An [[oracle]] prophesied that Troy would not be defeated as long as Troilus reached the age of twenty alive. He was ambushed and killed by [[Achilleus]], and Apollo avenged his death by killing Achilles. After the sack of Troy, Hecuba was taken to Lycia by Apollo.<ref>[[Stesichorus]], Fr.108</ref> [[Coronis (lover of Apollo)|Coronis]] was daughter of [[Phlegyas]], King of the [[Lapiths]]. While pregnant with [[Asclepius]], Coronis fell in love with [[Ischys]], son of [[Elatus]] and slept with him. When Apollo found out about her infidelity through his prophetic powers or thanks to his [[Lycius (son of Clinis)|raven]] who informed him, he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis. Apollo rescued the baby by cutting open Coronis' belly and gave it to the [[centaur]] [[Chiron]] to raise.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} [[Dryope (daughter of Dryops)|Dryope]], the daughter of Dryops, was impregnated by Apollo in the form of a snake. She gave birth to a son named Amphissus.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses,'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#32 32]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0074%3Abook%3D9%3Acard%3D324 9.330].</ref> In [[Euripides]]' play ''[[Ion (play)|Ion]]'', Apollo fathered [[Ion (mythology)|Ion]] by [[Creusa (daughter of Erechtheus)|Creusa]], wife of [[Xuthus]]. He used his powers to conceal her pregnancy from her father. Later, when Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, Apollo asked [[Hermes]] to save the child and bring him to the oracle at [[Delphi]], where he was raised by a priestess.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Apollo loved and kidnapped an Oceanid nymph, [[Melia (consort of Apollo)|Melia]]. Her father [[Oceanus]] sent one of his sons, [[Caanthus]], to find her, but Caanthus could not take her back from Apollo, so he burned Apollo's sanctuary. In retaliation, Apollo shot and killed Caanthus.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.10.5 9.10.5–6].</ref>
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