Apollo Entrusting Chiron with the Education of Aescalapius

Apollo of Mantua
Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BCE Greek original attributed to Polykleitos

A marble sculpture of Apollo and Marsyas
By Walter Runeberg

Apollo Victorious over the Python
By Pietro Francavilla

Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, by Andrea Appiani

Apollo, guide in death, I adore You.

χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά
Nothing beautiful without struggle.

Plato

The contest between Apollo and Marsyas
By Palma il Giovane

The best answer to anger is silence

Marcus Aurelius

Concert of Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon
By Maerten Van Heemskerck

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.

Marcus Aurelius