Apollo

Apollo, the god par excellence of the Greeks, identified with the sun and all that we owe to it in the shape of inspiration, art, poetry, and medicine; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis; born in the island of Delos (q.v.), whither Leto had fled from the jealous Hera; his favourite oracle at Delphi.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)