Because he was the God of the sun, music, poetry, medicine, and Archery. Without the sun light and heat wouldn't exisit. Without music, and poetry things would be kind of boring. You need medicine if you get hurt and archery for fighting.
Ancient Greeks and Romans.
Apollo is the greek god of the sun. He drove a sun chariot above the earths atmosphere that the greeks associate with the sun, so it would be appropiate to name it Apollo as the spaceship went outside the atmosphere to the moon, as the greeks believed apollo did with the sun
Apollo is not associated with any deity in Norse myth. Vikings never encountered the Greeks.
Basically, the Greeks went to temples such as Delphi and gave the Statue of Apollo offerings. The temples were generally made out of pillars, so that light would always shine on the statue.
Apollo was the god of the light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more (from Wikipedia).
Greeks
Ancient Greeks.
Apollo.
He brought out the sun every day. He pulled it out. That is what the Greeks believe in.
The Greeks associated the lyre with Apollo. Hermes actually created it, but after he stole Apollo's cattle and was arguing with him, Hermes started to play the lyre. Apollo was so entranced that he traded the cattle for the lyre.
Apollo is called by both the Greeks and Romans by the same name.
his mouth!
Ancient Greeks and Romans.
Apollo didn't spread a single plague over the Greeks. Instead, he shot infected arrows at the soldiers during to Trojan War.
Apollo is the greek god of the sun. He drove a sun chariot above the earths atmosphere that the greeks associate with the sun, so it would be appropiate to name it Apollo as the spaceship went outside the atmosphere to the moon, as the greeks believed apollo did with the sun
The Greeks visited Delphi so they could get advise from the god Apollo.
Ancient Greeks and Romans.