Apollo?

I found it interesting that Dante chose to use Apollo when speaking of Paradise. Dante is trying to bring Heaven into a point a view for Protestants but uses a pagan God in order to bring him the ability to write about this Heaven. There were small conflicts with the old deities from past religions but this one was pretty large and blunt. I just don't understand why he decides to do this, and possibly never will.

I commented on Caleb's post.