'Phoebus Apollo may refer to
- Apollo, a figure in Greek and Roman mythology
- Parnassius phoebus, a swallowtail butterfly commonly known as the Phoebus Apollo
Famous quotes containing the words phoebus and/or apollo:
“Downy windows, close,
And golden Phoebus never be beheld
Of eyes again so royal!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)