Editing Apollo (section)

==Modern reception==
Apollo often appears in [[Modernity|modern]] and [[Greek mythology in popular culture|popular culture]] due to his status as the god of music, dance and poetry.

=== Postclassical art and literature ===
==== Dance and music ====
Apollo has featured in dance and music in modern culture. [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] composed a "Hymn of Apollo" (1820), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''[[Apollon musagète]]'' (1927–1928). In 1978, the Canadian band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] released [[Hemispheres (Rush album)|an album]] with songs [[Cygnus X-1 Book II|"Apollo: Bringer of Wisdom"/"Dionysus: Bringer of Love"]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cygnus X-1 Book Two: Hemispheres Lyrics {{!}} Rush.com|url=https://www.rush.com/songs/cygnus-x-1-book-two-hemispheres/|access-date=24 April 2021|language=en-CA}}</ref>

==== Books ====
Apollo has been portrayed in modern literature, such as when [[Charles Handy]] in ''Gods of Management'' (1978) uses Greek gods as a metaphor to portray various types of [[organizational culture]]. Apollo represents a "role" culture where order, reason, and [[bureaucracy]] prevail.<ref>[[British Library]]: Management and Business Studies Portal, [https://mbsportal.bl.uk/taster/subjareas/busmanhist/mgmtthinkers/handy.aspx Charles Handy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112144123/https://mbsportal.bl.uk/taster/subjareas/busmanhist/mgmtthinkers/handy.aspx|date=12 November 2016}}, accessed 12 November 2016</ref>

=== Psychology and philosophy ===
{{See also|Apollonian and Dionysian|Apollo archetype}}

In the philosophical discussion of the arts, a distinction is sometimes made between the [[Apollonian and Dionysian]] impulses, where the former is concerned with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity. [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] argued that a fusion of the two was most desirable.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 August 2012 |title=Dionysus in Nietzsche and Greek Myth by Gwendolyn Toynton |url=http://www.primordialtraditions.net/prime/Library/DionysusinNietzscheandGreekMyth.aspx |access-date=11 May 2022 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814164705/http://www.primordialtraditions.net/prime/Library/DionysusinNietzscheandGreekMyth.aspx |archive-date=14 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Psychologist [[Carl Jung]]'s [[Apollo archetype]] represents what he saw as the disposition in people to over-intellectualise and maintain emotional distance.<ref>Shinoda-Bolen, J., ''Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves'' p.130-160 (1989)</ref>

=== Spaceflight ===
{{See also|Apollo program}}
In spaceflight, the 1960s and 1970s [[NASA]] program for orbiting and landing astronauts on the Moon was named after [[Apollo program|Apollo]], by [[NASA]] manager [[Abe Silverstein]]:

{{blockquote|Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.<ref name="pressrelease">{{cite press release |title=Release 69-36 |date=July 14, 1969 |publisher=[[Glenn Research Center|Lewis Research Center]] |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/history/apollo_press_release.html |location=Cleveland, OH |access-date=June 21, 2012}}</ref>|author=Abe Silverstein|title=Release 69-36}}