STC415827 Coronis is killed by Apollo or Apollo uccide Coronide, illustration from Ovid\'s Metamorphoses, Florence, 1832 (hand-coloured engraving) by Ademollo, Luigi (1764-1849); Private Collection; (add.info.: P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV cum Appositis Italico Carmine* Interpretationibus ac Notis, 5 VoLs (Florence, 1824, repr. 1832); Coronis: Apollo\'s lover and mother of his son Aesculapius. She betrays him with another before their son is even born, and when the raven tells Apollo, he kills her, but saves their son: Apollo: Phoebus Apollo, often referred to as Phoebus; The son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo is the God of Music, Medicine, Prophecy and the arts. In the Metamorphoses, Apollo is also portrayed as the sun god, but this characterization contradicts most mythology which names a distinct sun-god named Helios. ); The Stapleton Collection; Italian, out of copyright.