It appears that Apollo’s identification with the physical sun is predominantly understood in modern scholarship as a philosophical interpretation of a traditional religious belief. More precisely, it is often understood as an application of physical allegoresis on the tenets of traditional religion and thus attributed to a later stratum of Greek thought. A new evaluation of ancient evidence presented here reveals that the Apollo-sun identification was present in Greek ethnographic context from the earliest period and cannot be reduced to a philosophical reinterpretation of traditional myth and religion. At the same time, the authors interested in the interpretation of traditional religion in terms of natural philosophy were especially prone to use the Apollo-sun identification in their works, since it was able to provide substantial support for their hermeneutic approach.

看来，在现代学术中，阿波罗对自然太阳的认同主要被理解为对传统宗教信仰的哲学解释。更准确地说，它通常被理解为是对传统宗教宗旨进行身体寓言的寓意，因此可以归因于希腊思想的较新层次。这里提出的对古代证据的新评估表明，阿波罗太阳的识别最早出现在希腊的人种学背景下，不能简化为对传统神话和宗教的哲学重新诠释。同时，对用自然哲学来解释传统宗教感兴趣的作者尤其倾向于在作品中使用阿波罗太阳号，