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Helios as the personification of midday, rococo painting by Anton Raphael Mengs (c. 1765) showing apollonian traits, such as the lack of a chariot, that were absent in mythology and Hellenic art. Helios is sometimes identified with Apollo : "Different names may refer to the same being," Walter Burkert argues, "or else they may be consciously ...
Gerhart Hauptmann’s long poem Helios und Phaethon (1936) omits the cosmic disaster in order to focus on the relationship between godly father and mortal son. In Otakar Theer's symbolist tragedy Faëthón (1916), the hero epitomizes man's revolt against the world order ("the gods") and against human destiny. The tragedy was adapted in 1962 ...
3200 Phaethon (/ ˈ f eɪ. ə ˌ θ ɒ n /; previously sometimes spelled Phæton), provisionally designated 1983 TB, is an active [8] Apollo asteroid with an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are numerous unnamed asteroids with smaller perihelia, such as (137924) 2000 BD 19). [9]
Helios Leucothoe was buried alive by her father Orchamus after the jealous Clytie, still in love with Helios, revealed to him that his daughter was no longer a maiden. Helios arrived too late to save her, so instead he turned her into a frankincense tree, so she would still breathe air after a fashion, and not stay buried deep beneath in the soil.
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.
In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
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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.