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Helios and Phaethon with Saturn and the Four Seasons, by Nicolas Poussin, oil on canvas. In Ovid's account, Zeus' son Epaphus mocks Phaethon's claim that he is the son of the sun god; his mother Clymene tells Phaethon to go to Helios himself, to ask for confirmation of his paternity.
Helios is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight.
And when there were born to her two children, Helios and Selene, who were greatly admired for both their beauty and their chastity, the brothers of Basileia, they say, being envious of her because of her happy issue of children and fearing that Hyperion would divert the royal power to himself, committed an utterly impious deed; for entering ...
Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. Helios or Helio may also refer to: People. Helius (freedman) (died 69), freedman of the emperor Claudius;
"Hyperion" means "he that walks on high" or simply "the god above", often joined with "Helios". [5] There is a possible attestation of his name in Linear B (Mycenaean Greek) in the lacunose form ]pe-rjo-[(Linear B: ] 𐀟𐁊-[), found on the KN E 842 tablet (reconstructed [u]-pe-rjo-[ne]) [6] [7] though it has been suggested that the name actually reads "Apollo" ([a]-pe-rjo-[ne]).
Colossus of Rhodes, artist's impression, 1880. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
Phaethon (/ ˈ f eɪ. ə θ ən /; Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized: Phaéthōn, lit. 'shiner', pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]), also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun god Helios in Greek mythology.
The identification of Elias with Helios seems probalbe, but has to be backed by reliable sources. Notice that Ἥλιος = Helios has a spiritus asper (meaning that the /h/ was pronounced), whereas Ἠλίας = Elias has a spiritus lenis. However, at the time when Christianity arose, the difference in the pronunciation had disappeared.