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Read Christidēs/Anastasios-Phoibos, A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity 2007, p.175 which goes into more detail as to why the "Out-of-Anatolia Theory" is a dead one as of 2007.
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For I am Phoibos, zenith-cleaving, sun-shafted archer, Unforsworn tongue of truth …
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966
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[1201] See articles in Roscher's _L.xicon_ ( "Eros," "Moira," and similar terms); on Phoibos, cf.L. Deubner, in
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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(A.D. 361) [Greek: eipate tô basilêi, chamai pese daidalos aula; ouketi Phoibos echei kaluban, ou mantida daphnên, ou pagan laleousan; apesbeto kai lalon hudôr.]
Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Like Herakles, they journey from east to west, smiting the powers of darkness, storm, and winter with the thunderbolts of Zeus or the unerring arrows of Phoibos, and sinking in a blaze of glory on the western verge of the world, where the waves meet the firmament.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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The shafts of Bellerophon never fail to slay the black demon of the rain-cloud, and the bolt of Phoibos Chrysaor deals sure destruction to the serpent of winter.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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Call him what we will, -- Ioskeha, Michabo, or Phoibos, -- the beneficent Sun is the master and sustainer of us all; and if we were to relapse into heathenism, like Erckmann-Chatrian's innkeeper, we could not do better than to select him as our chief object of worship.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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Before, therefore, we can decide whether the story of Phoibos and Daphne is a mere invention, we must try to find out what can have been the meaning of the word Daphne.
Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861
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Phoibos; and if we read how either the earth received her in her lap, and then a laurel tree sprang up where she had disappeared, or how she herself was changed into a laurel tree, what shall we think of this?
Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861
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Besides, if Phoibos means the sun, why should not Daphne have a meaning too?
Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861
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