As proper nouns the difference between apollo and dionysus

is that apollo is (greek god|roman god): the son of zeus and leto, (or jupiter and latona), and the twin brother of artemis, (or diana) oxford dictionary of world mythology'', arthur cotterell, oxford university press, 1986 he was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; ''webster's college dictionary , random house, 2001 and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more while dionysus is (greek god) the god of wine, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".

As a noun apollo

is (astronomy) an asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 au, and perihelion distances less than 1017 au.