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{{Short description|Images of Apollo with cithara (lyre)}}
[[File:Apollo Musagetes Pio-Clementino Inv310.jpg|thumb|''[[Apollo Citharoedus (Vatican)|Apollo Citharoedus]]'', showing a [[cithara]] with box tail-pieces (Museo Pio-Clementino).]]

An '''Apollo Citharoedus''', or '''Apollo Citharede''', is a statue or other image of [[Apollo]] with a [[kithara|cithara]] (lyre).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hunt |first=J. M. |date=1987 |title=Apollonius Citharoedus |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/311410 |journal=Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |volume=91 |pages=283–287 |doi=10.2307/311410 |jstor=311410 |issn=0073-0688|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Notable examples==
===Vatican===
Among the best-known examples is the ''Apollo Citharoedus'', also known as '''Apollo Musagetes''' ("Apollo, Leader of the Muses"), of the [[Vatican Museums]], a 2nd-century AD colossal marble statue by an unknown (probably Roman) sculptor. Apollo is shown crowned with [[Laurus nobilis|laurel]] and wearing the long, flowing robe of the Ionic bard. The statue was found in 1774 with seven statues of the [[Muses]], in the ruins of [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]]' villa  near [[Tivoli, Italy]]. The sculptures are preserved in the Hall of the Muses, in the Museo Pio-Clementino of the [[Vatican Museums]].

===Other examples===
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|file:10 2023 - Palazzo Altemps, 46, Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, Ponte, Municipio Roma I, Roma, Lazio, 00186, Italia -Apollo kitharoidos (MNR Palazzo Altemps - inv 8590)- Photo Paolo Villa FO232030 bis gimp ombre.jpg
  |Apollo Altemps, Altemps Palace (Rome)
|file:Fresco Apollo kitharoidos Palatino Inv379982 n2.jpg
  |''Apollo Citharoedus'', a wall-painting from the [[Palatine Hill|Palatine Antiquarium]]
|File:MANNapoli 6281 Sitting Apollo Farnese.jpg
  |{{lang|it|Apollo Citaredo}}. [[Porphyry (geology)|Porphyry]] and marble, 2nd century AD. [[National Archaeological Museum, Naples]]
|file:Apollon de Mantoue Louvre MA689.jpg
  |Detail of the ''[[Apollo of Mantua|Apollon de Mantoue]]'' ([[Louvre Museum|Louvre]]) 
|file:Apollo Barberini Glyptothek Munich 211.jpg
  |The ''[[Apollo Barberini]]''
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A marble sculpture now identified as ''[[Pothos (sculpture)|Pothos]]'' (following a lost Greek 4th-century BC original by [[Skopas]]) was restored as an ''Apollo Citharoedus''; it is conserved in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo, [[Capitoline Museums]], Rome. Another marble ''Apollo Citharoedus'' (2.29m), from a Hellenistic original attributed to [[Timarchides]], of the 2nd century BC,  also stands in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo.

Other examples include the ''[[Apollo of Mantua]]'' and the ''[[Apollo Barberini]]'', possibly a copy of the cult statue of the [[Temple of Apollo Palatinus]]; it is conserved in the [[Glyptothek]], Munich. The {{lang|it|Apollo Citaredo}} in the [[National Archaeological Museum, Naples]] is identified as Apollo but is clearly a female figure. Its provenance is unclear; it has been much restored, the head is unlikely to be original and the  figure was probably of [[Vesta (mythology)|Vesta]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Apollo Citaredo | publisher=[[National Archaeological Museum, Naples]] |first=Antonio |last=Coppa |language=it |url=https://mann-napoli.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/4.-Apollo-Citaredo.pdf}}</ref>
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==References==
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