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7 gru 2022 · Helios, son of Hyperion and Theia, was the personification of the sun and a god of the day. Crowned with rays of golden sunlight and riding his blazing chariot, Helios represented the sun’s daily journey across the sky.
7 gru 2022 · Selene’s moon chariot—similar to the sun chariot of her brother Helios and the dawn chariot of her sister Eos—was probably her most distinctive and consistent attribute. Depending on the author, the chariot was either silver, snow white, or gold. Selene began appearing in the visual arts around the early fifth century BCE.
10 mar 2023 · Hyperion was so closely associated with heavenly bodies that his children Helios and Selene were thought to embody the sun and the moon, respectively. The historian Diodorus of Sicily, probably inspired by this association, made the rationalizing claim that Hyperion was the first to study and comprehend astronomical phenomena.
10 mar 2023 · Marble relief showing the sun god Helios with rays of sun as a crown (ca. 300 BCE). Helios' mother Thea was often associated with heavenly bodies and other forms of light. Gary Todd CC0. Homeric Hymn 31, which is dedicated to Helios, elaborates slightly on the unsung Theia, piling epithets on her and even renaming her Euryphaessa (see above):
9 gru 2022 · Each day, she rose from the Ocean and rode her chariot across the sky, dispersing the shadows of the night. This cleared the way for her brother Helios, the god of the sun, who followed her in his blinding chariot. When Eos and Helios had both completed their journeys across the sky, it was time for their sister Selene to shine as the moon.
8 mar 2023 · Circe, daughter of the sun god Helios, was a Greek goddess or nymph known for her ability as a sorceress. She lived on the remote island of Aeaea and played a part in the adventures of several Greek heroes, including the Argonauts and later Odysseus.
17 sie 2023 · Ancient sources agreed that Aeetes’ father was the sun god Helios, but they did not always agree on the identity of his mother. In what was probably the standard account, his mother was an Oceanid named Perseis (or Perse). But in other traditions, Aeetes’ mother was identified as the Oceanid Ephyra, as Antiope, or as Asterope.
9 mar 2023 · Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the wife of Hades, and the queen of the Underworld. Her most important myth tells of how Hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the Underworld so that she could never leave. Not even her mother, Demeter, could bring her home.
9 mar 2023 · Helios, in turn, revealed the truth: that Hades had taken Persephone. Eventually, Zeus forced Hades to restore Persephone to Demeter for at least part of the year. The girl was at last reunited with her mother and with Hecate, who became her attendant and continued to receive great honors in the cult of Demeter and Persephone (as a reward for helping with Demeter’s search).
29 lis 2022 · Medea was also a descendant of the gods. Her grandfather was Helios, the Titan who personified the sun, and she was the niece of Circe, a minor goddess who was also a powerful magician. Given her pedigree, it is unsurprising that ancient sources were divided on whether Medea was an ordinary mortal or a divine being.
