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Helios, who in Greek mythology is the god of the Sun, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. [3] In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide-browed (εὐρυμέτωπος), fat, and straight-horned (ὀρθόκραιρος). [4]
In the Homeric epics, his most notable role is the one he plays in the Odyssey, where Odysseus' men despite his warnings impiously kill and eat Helios's sacred cattle that the god kept at Thrinacia, his sacred island. Once informed of their misdeed, Helios in wrath asks Zeus to punish those who wronged him, and Zeus agreeing strikes their ship ...
Two interesting goddesses in the Odyssey are Calypso and Circe, who both show friendly and hostile reactions toward Odysseus. Calypso rescued Odysseus after his ship and crew were destroyed by the storm created by Zeus after Odysseus's crew killed Helios's sun cattle, even after a warning from Circe. She tended to his needs on her isolated ...
Hyperion is Helios' father in Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. [16] But in the Iliad and elsewhere in the Odyssey , Helios is also called "Helios Hyperion" with "Hyperion" here being used either as a patronymic or as an other epithet.
The Odyssey is a 1997 American mythology–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey. [1] Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and co-produced by Hallmark Entertainment and American Zoetrope , the miniseries aired in two parts beginning on May 18, 1997, on NBC .
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 ...
A scholion on the Odyssey mentions the abduction of the hunter Orion by "Hemera" (Eos in Homer). [122] [123] Eos, in contrast to Helios and Selene and more similarly to Hemera and Hemera's mother Nyx, embodies a part of the day and night cycle, instead of a celestial body. [121]
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. It is not clear why Perse bore Helios, the ...