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Perse was one of the wives of the sun god, Helios. [6] [7] According to Homer and Hesiod, with Helios she had Circe and Aeëtes, [8] with later authors also mentioning their children Pasiphaë, [9] Perses, [10] Aloeus, [11] and even Calypso, [11] who is however more commonly the daughter of Atlas.
Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described as the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn). Helios' most notable role in Greek mythology is the story of his mortal son Phaethon. [2]
Hyginus records another version of Phaethon's parentage, which he attributes to Hesiod; according to him, Phaethon was the son of an Oceanid named Merope and Clymenus (a reversal of the usual names Merops and Clymene), who is the son of Helios by an unnamed mother, [26] [27] thus making Helios and Phaethon grandfather and grandson. The ...
Halia was a daughter of Thalassa (the personification of the sea), and sister to the Telchines; it is not clear who her father was, if she had one at all. [3]The sea-god Poseidon fell in love with Halia, and fathered six sons and one daughter, Rhodos, on her, [4] who later became the wife of the sun-god Helios and the one after whom the island of Rhodes was named.
Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion and Titaness Theia) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis. According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5] Aeëtes then married the Oceanid Idyia and Medea was their child. From here, Medea's ...
One year, an extremely beautiful bull was born, Minos refused to sacrifice this bull, and sacrificed another, inferior bull instead. As punishment, Poseidon cursed his wife Pasiphaë to experience lust for the white, splendid bull. Ultimately, Pasiphaë went to Daedalus and asked him to help her mate with the bull.
Clymene, another Oceanid, was given as the wife to King Merops of Aethiopia and was, by Helios, the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades. [11] Others include: Clymene, the name of one or two Nereid(s), [12] 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
Castroneves appeared on the 17 December 2012 edition of The Jeff Probst Show, [216] and featured on an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap's third season in 2014. [217] In 2016, he was chosen to take part on American Ninja Warrior , [ 218 ] and teamed up with IndyCar drivers Conor Daly , James Hinchcliffe , Tony Kanaan and Will Power on Celebrity ...