In The Heroes of Olympus Apollo is banished from Olympus by Zeus to Delos (Apollo and Artemis's birthplace) as punishment for revealing the Prophecy of Seven too early.
For his murder of the Cyclopes, Apollo was forced by Zeus to live on Earth for a year again, stripped of his divinity and godly powers, and forced to serve the mortal King Admetus of Thessaly as a shepherd for a year.
Apollo and the Python
So much so, she told Zeus to banish Apollo to Tartarus. Instead, Zeus punished Apollo by exiling him from Olympus and making him serve as a slave on earth for nine long years. At the end of his sentence Apollo patched things up with Gaea, and she gifted him the Oracular Temple of Delphi.
As mentioned earlier, Apollo killed the serpentine named Python, who was the child of the primordial god, Gaia. Python was ordered by Hera to kill Leto, Apollo's mother, for Zeus' act of adultery against her. Because of this, Zeus had no choice but to punish Apollo to purify him.
One of the Twelve Olympians, Apollo was cast down from Olympus and turned into a human named Lester by Zeus after the war against Gaea in The Blood of Olympus. Zeus blames him for encouraging his descendant, the augur Octavian, to follow his dangerous path and for prematurely revealing the Prophecy of Seven.
Daphne, in her effort to escape him, was changed into a laurel, his sacred tree; Coronis was shot by Apollo's twin, Artemis, when she proved unfaithful; and Cassandra rejected his advances and was punished by being made to utter true prophecies that no one believed.
Angered by the insult, Cupid shot him with a golden love arrow causing Apollo to fall in love with the first person he saw. Cupid then shot Daphne with a lead-tipped arrow causing her to be impervious to love. At that moment, Apollo caught sight of Daphne, who was out hunting, and fell in love.
In Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a Spartan prince of remarkable beauty and a lover of the sun god Apollo. He was also admired by Zephyrus, the god of the West wind, Boreas, the god of the North wind and a mortal man named Thamyris.
In the myth, Apollo falls madly in love with Daphne, a woman sworn to remain a virgin. Apollo hunts Daphne who refuses to accept his advances. Right at the moment he catches her, she turns into a laurel tree, a scene famously depicted in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne sculpture.
Apollo was a much-loved god, and this was most likely due to his association with many positive aspects of the human condition such as music, poetry, purification, healing, and medicine. The god was also associated with moderation in all things.
Weaknesses: Like his father Zeus, Apollo gets in trouble over love. Birthplace: On the sunny Greek island of Delos, where he was born along with his twin sister, Artemis. Another tradition gives the islands of Lato, now called Paximadia, off the southern coast of Crete. Spouse: Apollo was never married.
Apollo is angry because Chryseis, the daughter of one of his priests, has been kidnapped. Agamemnon takes Chryseis as a war prize and Apollo is so furious that he sends a plague against the Achaeans.
Hyacinth is a god who slept with Apollo and sided with Zeus during the Pantheon's civil war.
She was the daughter of Phlegyas, king of the Lapiths, and Cleophema. By Apollo she became the mother of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. While she was still pregnant, she cheated on Apollo with a mortal man named Ischys and was subsequently killed by the god for her betrayal.
Together, they'll have to face countless obstacles to find the Oracle of Delphi. But, someone named Nero is trying to stop them. Unfortunately for Apollo, Meg is Nero's daughter, so she betrays him.
The most celebrated of his loves were the nymph Daphne, princess Koronis (Coronis), huntress Kyrene (Cyrene) and youth Hyakinthos (Hyacinthus). The stories of Apollo's lovers Daphne and Kyrene can be found on their own separate pages--see the Apollo pages sidebar.
Muses, the nine goddesses of arts, poetry, and song were all his lovers.
Apollo and Python
According to one myth, while the young Apollo was establishing his oracle at Delphi, he encountered a monstrous serpent or dragon called Python. After a violent battle, Apollo won the upper hand and slew Python with his arrows. He then built his oracle over the corpse of his defeated enemy.
Apollo's Women
Chione: daughter of Daedalion. Their son was Philammon, sometimes said to be the son of Philonis. Arsinoe: daughter of Leukippos. Their son was Asklepios (Asclepius).
Daphne was the first love of Apollo, the sun god, the son of Zeus and Leto. Although the sun god Apollo fell in love with many girls many times, Apollo's love for Daphne will always remain in the history of Greek mythology as an eternal one-sided tragic love story.
DOROS (Dorus) A king of the Kouretes tribe of Aitolia (central Greece). He was one of the three sons of Apollon and Phthia. DRYOPS The eponymous king of Dryopia (central Greece).
The story goes that one day, Apollo was throwing a discus with Hyacinth. Either through his own mistake or through the jealous intervention of Zephyrus, Apollo threw the discus and hit Hyacinthus in the head with it, killing him. Unwilling to let his lover die, Apollo made flowers grow from his spilled blood.
Coronis was pregnant with Apollo's child when she decided to sleep with the mortal, so Apollo killed them both, but he rescued the child from her womb.