
19th-century illustration of Phoebus Apollo, the god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. (Belvedere, Vatican, Rome). Original artwork published in "A pictorial history of the world's great nations: from the earliest dates to the present time" by Charlotte M. Yonge (Selmar Hess, New York, 1882).