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Bust of the sun-god Helios, second century AD; the holes were used for the attachment of a sun ray crown, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens, Greece. Helios is the son of Hyperion and Theia, [24] [25] [26] or Euryphaessa, [27] or Basileia, [28] and the only brother of the goddesses Eos and Selene. If the order of mention of the three siblings is ...
The god behind Phaethon's death, Zeus, is seen hurling his thunderbolt, while Helios appears on horse-back, with a spare horse by his side (matching Euripides' telling where Helios accompanies his son in the sky), having caught two of the horses and now directing his attention to the other two (like Lucretius describes him doing [64]).
Phaethon ([Φαέθων] Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 7) ) is the title of a lost tragedy written by Athenian playwright Euripides, first produced circa 420 BC, and covered the myth of Phaethon, the young mortal boy who asked his father the sun god Helios to drive his solar chariot for a single day. The play has ...
Eos is the sister of Helios, the god of the sun, and Selene, the goddess of the moon, "who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven". [44] Out of the four authors that give her and her siblings a birth order, two make her the oldest child, the other two the youngest.
3200 Phaethon was discovered in 1983, and is named after the Greek mythology character who drove the sun-god Helios’ chariot. The asteroid is small, with a diameter of just over three miles.
In his Dialogues of the Gods, the satirical writer Lucian of Samosata mentions that Clymene along with Phaethon pressured Helios to lend his chariot to the boy, [29] and that sometimes Helios lingers with Clymene, forgetting to drive his chariot. [30] A passage from Greek anthology also mentions Helios visiting Clymene in her room. [31]
In Norse mythology, the chariot of the goddess Sól, drawn by Arvak and Alsvid. The Trundholm sun chariot dates to the Nordic Bronze Age, about 2,500 years earlier than written attestations of the Norse myth, but is often associated with it. Greek Helios (or Apollo) riding in a chariot. [30] (See also Phaëton) [31]
Articles relating to the god Helios, who is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. 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 is the son of Hyperion and Theia, and brother to the goddesses Selene and Eos.