Phoebus (mythology)

Phoebus (Greek Φοῖβος, Latin Phoebus) is a nickname or epithet of the god Apollo in classical mythology. brilliant".

Classical Latin poets also applied the nickname Phoebus to the sun god, hence the common references in post-European poetry to Phoebus and his chariot as a metaphor for the sun.

But in mythological texts the sun-god and Apollo are otherwise not confused or identified. For example, in Ovid's The Metamorphoses the hero Phaethon is the son of Phoebus the sun-god, and not the son of Apollo Phoebus.

Cervantes, in Quixote, at the beginning of chapter XX of the second part, refers to the sun with the name Phoebus: «As soon as the white dawn gave rise to the shining Phoebus with the ardor of its hot rays...».

Her name was used at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, along with Athena's, for the mascots, two brothers named Athena and Phèvos.

On the other hand, the lyrics of the March of San Lorenzo, written by Argentine Carlos Javier Benielli, begin its first stanza alluding to the sun using the form under consideration: "Febo appears; and its rays / illuminate the historic convent".