...the sun . . . Apollo was the god of all the fine arts, of medicine, music, poetry, and eloquence, of which he was deemed the inventor. He had received...whose oracles were in general repute over the world' (Lemprière, 68). Marsyas, 'a celebrated piper of Celasna, in Phrygia, son of Olympus, or of Hyagnis...

...Classical Dictionary ( 1 788), a text Keats knew well,7 states that "Apollo was the god of all the fine arts, of medicine, music, poetry, and eloquence, of all which he was deemed the inventor" (61). Thus, Keats's invocations of Apollo draw, at least in part, on all of these associations. A number...