Helios

Also known as: Son of Hyperion / the bright Son of Hyperion · Family: Gods · Role: sun god · First appears: Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1

In Homeric Hymn II, Helios, the bright son of Hyperion, revealed to Demeter that Zeus had given Persephone to Hades, who seized her and took her to his realm. He said, “None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus”.

In Homeric Hymn XXVIII, the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses “a long while.” Homeric Hymn XXXI recounts his birth: Euryphaessa, wife of Hyperion, bore Eos, Selene and “tireless Helios.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Helios revealed that Zeus gave Persephone to Hades, who seized her and took her to his realm.(Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1)
  • With: Demeter Zeus Hades Persephone
  • “None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades, her father’s brother, to be called his buxom wife. And Hades seized her and took her loudly crying in his chariot down to his realm of mist and gloom.”
• The bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses.(Homeric Hymn XXVIII · To Athena)
  • “the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while”
• Euryphaessa gave birth to Eos, Selene, and Helios.(Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios)
  • With: Hyperion Euryphaessa Eos Selene
  • “who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios”

Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1

• parent: Hyperion “the lord Helios, Hyperion’s bright son”

Homeric Hymn XXVIII · To Athena

• parent: Hyperion “the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while”

Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios

• parent: Hyperion “For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios”
• parent: Euryphaessa “For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.