All 13 Uses of

Apollo
in
The Winter's Tale

Yet, for a greater confirmation,—For, in an act of this importance, 'twere Most piteous to be wild,—I have despatch'd in post To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple, Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know Of stuff'd sufficiency: now, from the oracle They will bring all, whose spiritual counsel had, Shall stop or spur me.†
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Apollo = the United States space program to place a person on the moon

Twenty-three days They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells The great Apollo suddenly will have The truth of this appear.†
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The violent carriage of it Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,—Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,—Shall the contents discover, something rare Even then will rush to knowledge.†
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This your request Is altogether just: therefore, bring forth, And in Apollo's name, his oracle: [Exeunt certain Officers.]†
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You here shall swear upon this sword of justice, That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought This seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd Of great Apollo's priest; and that since then, You have not dar'd to break the holy seal, Nor read the secrets in't.†
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Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves Do strike at my injustice.†
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I do believe Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that Apollo would, this being indeed the issue Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid, Either for life or death, upon the earth Of its right father.†
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The gods themselves, Humbling their deities to love, have taken The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter Became a bull and bellow'd; the green Neptune A ram and bleated; and the fire-rob'd god, Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain, As I seem now:—their transformations Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,—Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts Burn hotter than my faith.†
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Besides, the gods Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes; For has not the divine Apollo said, Is't not the tenour of his oracle, That king Leontes shall not have an heir Till his lost child be found?†
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Definitions:

(1) (Apollo in mythology)
Greek and Roman mythology: god of sunlight, music, poetry, prophecy, and healing
(2) (Apollo US space program)
US space program to place a person on the moon
Three missions are especially remembered:
- Apollo 1 -- 3 men killed by fire (1967)
- Apollo 11 -- first manned mission to land on the Moon (1969)
- Apollo 13 -- called a "successful failure" because it safely returned to earth after being crippled by an explosion (1970)