This deity presents a stag as a gift to a young lover that accidentally spears it to death and turns into a cypress tree out of sorrow.
This deity presents a stag as a gift to a young lover that accidentally spears it to death and turns into a cypress tree out of sorrow. The foundation of Apulia is attributed to a lover of this deity named Iapyx. This deity yokes a lion and a boar to a chariot in order to help a companion win his wife in marriage. A jealous love triangle involving this god and Zephyrus leads to a stray discus fatally striking the youth (*) Hyacinthus. A lover of Cyparissus, this god becomes slave to Admetus for a year as punishment for his murder of the Cyclopes, who had earlier caused the death of this god's son Asclepius. In earlier myths, he defeats the monster Python at the site of the Oracle of Delphi. The epithet "Phoebus" is given to -- for 10 points -- what twin brother of Artemis?
This deity presents a stag as a gift to a young lover that accidentally spears it to death and turns into a cypress tree out of sorrow.
Apollo [or Apollon; or Phoebus Apollo] 