Helios - Wikipedia Helios For other uses, see Helios ( disambiguation ). `` Helius '' redirects here. For the crane fly, see Helius ( fly ). For the poet, see Helius Eobanus Hessus. `` Pyrois '' redirects here. For the moth, see Pyrois ( moth ). Helios Personification of the Sun Head of Helios, middle period, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Abode Sky Symbol Chariot, horse, aureole, rooster, incense, heliotrope, sunflower Consort Many including : Clymene, Klytie, Perse, Rhodos, and Leucothea Children Many including : The Charites, Phaethon, The Horae, Aeëtes, Circe, Perses ( brother of Aeëtes ), Pasiphaë, Heliadae, Heliades, Phaethusa and Lampetia Parents Hyperion and Theia Siblings Selene, Eos Roman equivalent Sol Hinduism equivalent Surya Helios ( / ˈhiːli. ɒs / ; Ancient Greek : Ἥλιος Hēlios ; Latinized as Helius ; Ἠέλιος in Homeric Greek ) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia ( according to Hesiod ), also known as Euryphaessa ( in Homeric Hymn 31 ) and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. Helios was described as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth - circling Oceanus and through the world - ocean returned to the East at night. In the Homeric Hymn to Helios, Helios is said to drive a golden chariot drawn by steeds ( HH 31.14 -- 15 ) ; and Pindar speaks of Helios 's `` fire - darting steeds '' ( Olympian Ode 7.71 ). Still later, the horses were given fire related names : Pyrois, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon. The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology was Sol. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Greek mythology 3 Helios and Apollo 4 Helios and Zeus 5 Cult of Helios 6 Usil, the Etruscan Helios 7 Helios Megistos 8 Consorts and children 8.1 Notes 9 Horses of Helios 10 In other works 11 Epithets 12 See also 13 References 14 Bibliography 15 Further reading Etymology The Greek ἥλιος is the inherited word for the Sun, from Proto - Indo - European * seh2u - el, which is cognate with Latin sol, Sanskrit surya, Old English swegl, Old Norse sól, Welsh haul, Avestan hvar, etc. The name Helen is thought to share this etymology, and may express an early alternate personification of the sun among Hellenic peoples. The female offspring of Helios were called Heliades. The Greek sun god had various bynames or epithets, which over time in some cases came to be considered separate deities associated with the Sun. Most notably, Helios is closely associated with, and sometimes consciously identified with, Apollo. Among these is Hyperion ( superus, `` high up '' ), Elektor ( of uncertain derivation, often translated as `` beaming '' or `` radiant '', especially in the combination elektor Hyperion ), Phaëton `` the radiant '', Hekatos ( of Apollo, also Hekatebolos `` far - shooter '', i.e. the sun 's rays considered as arrows ). Diodorus Siculus of Sicily reported that the Chaldeans called Cronus ( Saturn ) by the name Helios, or the sun, and he explained that this was because Saturn was the most conspicuous of the planets. Greek mythology Helios in his chariot, early 4th century BC, Athena 's temple, Ilion The best known story involving Helios is that of his son Phaethon, who attempted to drive his father 's chariot but lost control and set the earth on fire. If Zeus had not interfered by throwing a thunderbolt at Phaethon, killing him instantly, all mortals would have died. Helios was sometimes characterized with the epithet Panoptes ( `` the all - seeing '' ). In the story told in the hall of Alcinous in the Odyssey ( viii. 300ff. ), Aphrodite, the consort of Hephaestus, secretly beds Ares, but all - seeing Helios spies on them and tells Hephaestus, who ensnares the two lovers in nets invisibly fine, to punish them. In the Odyssey, Odysseus and his surviving crew land on Thrinacia, an island sacred to the sun god, whom Circe names Hyperion rather than Helios. There, the sacred red cattle of the Sun were kept : You will now come to the Thrinacian island, and here you will see many herds of cattle and flocks of sheep belonging to the sun - god. There will be seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty heads in each flock. They do not breed, nor do they become fewer in number, and they are tended by the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetia, who are children of the sun - god Hyperion by Neaera. Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father 's flocks and herds. Solar Apollo with the radiant halo of Helios in a Roman floor mosaic, El Djem, Tunisia, late 2nd century Though Odysseus warns his men, when supplies run short they impiously kill and eat some of the cattle of the Sun. The guardians of the island, Helios ' daughters, tell their father about this. Helios appeals to Zeus telling them to dispose of Odysseus ' men or he will take the Sun and shine it in the Underworld. Zeus destroys the ship with his lightning bolt, killing all the men except for Odysseus. In one Greek vase painting, Helios appears riding across the sea in the cup of the Delphic tripod which appears to be a solar reference. Athenaeus in Deipnosophistae relates that, at the hour of sunset, Helios climbed into a great golden cup in which he passes from the Hesperides in the farthest west to the land of the Ethiops, with whom he passes the dark hours. While Heracles traveled to Erytheia to retrieve the cattle of Geryon, he crossed the Libyan desert and was so frustrated at the heat that he shot an arrow at Helios, the Sun. Almost immediately, Heracles realized his mistake and apologized profusely, in turn and equally courteous, Helios granted Heracles the golden cup which he used to sail across the sea every night, from the west to the east because he found Heracles ' actions immensely bold. Heracles used this golden cup to reach Erytheia. By the Oceanid Perse, Helios became the father of Aeëtes, Circe, Perses ( brother of Aeetes ) and Pasiphaë. His other children are Phaethusa ( `` radiant '' ) and Lampetia ( `` shining '' ). Helios and Apollo Helios as the personification of midday by Anton Raphael Mengs ( notice the apollonian traits absent in mythology and Hellenic art, such as the lack of a chariot ) Helios is sometimes identified with Apollo : `` Different names may refer to the same being, '' Walter Burkert observes, `` or else they may be consciously equated, as in the case of Apollo and Helios. '' In Homeric literature, Apollo is clearly identified as a different god, a plague - dealer with a silver ( not golden ) bow and no solar features. The earliest certain reference to Apollo identified with Helios appears in the surviving fragments of Euripides ' play Phaethon in a speech near the end ( fr 781 N2 ), Clymene, Phaethon 's mother, laments that Helios has destroyed her child, that Helios whom men rightly call Apollo ( the name Apollo is here understood to mean Apollon `` Destroyer '' ). By Hellenistic times Apollo had become closely connected with the Sun in cult. His epithet Phoebus, Phoibos `` shining '', was later also applied by Latin poets to the sun - god Sol. The identification became a commonplace in philosophic texts and appears in the writing of Parmenides, Empedocles, Plutarch and Crates of Thebes among others, as well as appearing in some Orphic texts. Pseudo-Eratosthenes writes about Orpheus in Catasterismi, section 24 : `` But having gone down into Hades because of his wife and seeing what sort of things were there, he did not continue to worship Dionysus, because of whom he was famous, but he thought Helios to be the greatest of the gods, Helios whom he also addressed as Apollo. Rousing himself each night toward dawn and climbing the mountain called Pangaion, he would await the sun 's rising, so that he might see it first. Therefore, Dionysus, being angry with him, sent the Bassarides, as Aeschylus the tragedian says ; they tore him apart and scattered the limbs. '' Dionysus and Asclepius are sometimes also identified with this Apollo Helios. Classical Latin poets also used Phoebus as a byname for the sun - god, whence come common references in later European poetry to Phoebus and his car ( `` chariot '' ) as a metaphor for the sun but, in particular instances in myth, Apollo and Helios are distinct. The sun - god, the son of Hyperion, with his sun chariot, though often called Phoebus ( `` shining '' ) is not called Apollo except in purposeful non-traditional identifications. Despite these identifications, Apollo was never actually described by the Greek poets driving the chariot of the sun, although it was common practice among Latin poets. Therefore, Helios is still known as the `` sun god '' -- the one who drives the sun chariot across the sky each day. Helios and Zeus Bust of Alexander the Great as an eidolon of Helios ( Musei Capitolini ). Helios is also sometimes conflated in classical literature with another Olympian god, Zeus. Helios is referred either directly as Zeus ' eye, or clearly implied to be. For instance, Hesiod effectively describes Zeus 's eye as the sun. This perception is possibly derived from earlier Proto - Indo - European religion, in which the sun is believed to have been envisioned as the eye of * Dyḗus Pḥ tḗr ( see Hvare - khshaeta ). Cult of Helios L. R. Farnell assumed `` that sun - worship had once been prevalent and powerful among the people of the pre-Hellenic culture, but that very few of the communities of the later historic period retained it as a potent factor of the state religion ''. Our largely Attic literary sources tend to give us an unavoidable Athenian bias when we look at ancient Greek religion, and `` no Athenian could be expected to worship Helios or Selene '', J. Burnet observes, `` but he might think them to be gods, since Helios was the great god of Rhodes and Selene was worshiped at Elis and elsewhere ''. James A. Notopoulos considers Burnet 's an artificial distinction : `` To believe in the existence of the gods involves acknowledgment through worship, as Laws 87 D, E shows '' ( note, p. 264 ). Aristophanes ' Peace ( 406 -- 413 ) contrasts the worship of Helios and Selene with that of the more essentially Greek Twelve Olympians, as the representative gods of the Achaemenid Persians ( See also : Hvare - khshaeta, Mah ) ; all the evidence shows that Helios and Selene were minor gods to the Greeks. Colossus of Rhodes `` The island of Rhodes is almost the only place where Helios enjoys an important cult '', Burkert asserts ( p. 174 ), instancing a spectacular rite, in which a quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses, is driven over a precipice into the sea, with its overtones of the plight of Phaethon noted. Their annual gymnastic tournaments were held in his honor. The Colossus of Rhodes was dedicated to him. Helios also had a significant cult on the acropolis of Corinth on the Greek mainland. However, the Dorians seem to have revered Helios, offering the central mainland cultus for Helios. The scattering of cults of the sun god in Sicyon, Argos, Ermioni, Epidaurus and Laconia, and his holy livestock flocks at Taenarum, seem to suggest that the deity was considerably important in Dorian religion, compared to other parts of ancient Greece. Additionally, it may have been the Dorians to import his worship to Rhodes. The tension between the mainstream traditional religious veneration of Helios, which had become enriched with ethical values and poetical symbolism in Pindar, Aeschylus and Sophocles, and the Ionian proto - scientific examination of Helios the Sun, a phenomenon of the study Greeks termed meteora, clashed in the trial of Anaxagoras c. 450 BC, a forerunner of the culturally traumatic trial of Socrates for irreligion, in 399 BC. In Plato 's Republic ( 516 B ), Helios, the Sun, is the symbolic offspring of the idea of the Good. While the predominance of Helios in Sparta is currently unclear, it seems Helen was the local solar deity. Usil, the Etruscan Helios The Etruscan god of the Sun, equivalent to Helios, was Usil. His name appears on the bronze liver of Piacenza, next to Tiur, the moon. He appears, rising out of the sea, with a fireball in either outstretched hand, on an engraved Etruscan bronze mirror in late Archaic style, formerly on the Roman antiquities market. On Etruscan mirrors in Classical style, he appears with a halo. Helios Megistos Coin of Roman Emperor Constantine I depicting Sol Invictus / Apollo with the legend SOLI INVICTO COMITI, c. 315 AD. In Late Antiquity a cult of Helios Megistos ( `` Great Helios '' ) ( Sol Invictus ) drew to the image of Helios a number of syncretic elements, which have been analysed in detail by Wilhelm Fauth by means of a series of late Greek texts, namely : an Orphic Hymn to Helios ; the so - called Mithras Liturgy, where Helios rules the elements ; spells and incantations invoking Helios among the Greek Magical Papyri ; a Hymn to Helios by Proclus ; Julian 's Oration to Helios, the last stand of official paganism ; and an episode in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca. Helios in these works is frequently equated not only with deities such as Mithras and Harpocrates, but even with the monotheistic Judaeo - Christian god. In this texts, he is given a variety of cosmical attributes, such as being the creator of life, the lord of the heavens and the god of the sea. He can take the form of all animals of the zodiac. Consorts and children By Aegle the Naiad The Charites ( who are otherwise called daughters of Eurynome with Zeus or of Aphrodite with Dionysus ) : Aglaea `` splendor '' Euphrosyne `` mirth '' Thalia `` flourishing '' By Clymene, the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys The Heliades, mostly represented as poplars mourning Phaëton 's death beside the river Eridanos, weeping tears of amber : Aetheria Helia Merope Phoebe Dioxippe Phaëton, the son who borrowed the chariot of Helios, but lost control and plunged into the river Eridanos Astris, wife of the river - god Hydaspes in India, mother of Deriades By Neaera the nymph, two daughters -- guardians of the cattle of Thrinacia : Phaethusa Lampetia ( other sources list these two among the children of Clymene ) By Rhodos, the Nymph daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite The Heliadae, expert seafarers and astrologers from Rhodes : Tenages Macareus Actis Triopas Candalus Ochimus Cercaphus Auges Thrinax Electryone By Perse or Perseis, the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys : Aega Aeëtes, ruler over Colchis and the father of Medea Perses Circe, the magician goddess Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos of Crete and the mother of Ariadne, Phaedra and the Minotaur By Ocyrrhoe the Oceanid : Phasis, a river - god in Colchis By Leucothoe, daughter of Eurynome and Orchamus : Thersanon By Nausidame, daughter of Amphidamas of Elis : Augeas, one of the Argonauts By Gaia Bisaltes By Selene The Horae ( possibly ; more commonly known as daughters of Zeus ) By unknown mothers : Aegiale, possible mother to Alcyone Aithon, who chopped Demeter 's sacred grove and was forever famished for that ( compare the myth of Erysichthon ) Aix, a nymph with a beautiful body and a horrible face Aloeus, ruler over Asopia Camirus, founder of Camira, a city in Rhodes Mausolus Phorbas, father of Ambracia Notes Listed above are the most common versions of the myths considering mothers of Helios ' children ; other ones are known as well, for instance : Rhode or the Nereid Prote were possible mothers of Phaethon Ephyra, of Aeetes Antiope, of Aeetes and Aloeus Asterope, of Aeetes and Circe Crete, of Pasiphae Hyrmine, of Augeas According to Ovid 's Metamorphoses, Clytie, sister of Leucothoe, also loved Helios, but did n't have her feelings answered Anaxibia, an Indian Naiad, was lusted after by Helios according to Pseudo-Plutarch Horses of Helios Some lists, cited by Hyginus, of the names of horses that pulled Helios ' chariot, are as follows. According to Homer - late 8th / early 7th century BC : Abraxas, * Therbeeo. According to Eumelus of Corinth - late 7th / early 6th century BC : The male trace horses are Eous ( by him the sky is turned ) and Aethiops ( as if faming, parches the grain ) and the female yoke - bearers are Bronte ( `` Thunder '' ) and Sterope ( `` Lightning '' ). According to Ovid - Roman, 1st century BC Phaethon 's ride : Pyrois ( `` the fiery one '' ), Eous ( `` he who turns the sky '' ), Aethon ( `` blazing '' ), and Phlegon '' ( `` burning '' ). In other works The bust of Helios was used on the cover of the 2011 vaporwave album Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus. Epithets Terpsimbrotos See also Amshuman Black Sun ( mythology ) Five Suns ( mythology ) Guaraci Heliopolis, particularly Heliopolis in Egypt Heliopolis in Lebanon Piltzintecuhtli ( mythology ) Sol ( mythology ) Helium, chemical element named after the Titan god Helios References Jump up ^ Pande, Govind Chandra ( 2007 ). 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Further reading Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality : late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 59, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ISBN 978 - 0 - 87099 - 179 - 0 ; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries Ancient Greek deities by affiliation Primordial deities Achlys Aether Aion / Chronos Ananke Chaos Erebus Eros / Phanes Gaia Hemera Nyx The Ourea Pontus / Thalassa Tartarus Uranus Fates Atropos Clotho Lachesis Titan deities Titanes ( male ) Coeus Crius Cronus Hyperion Iapetus Oceanus Ophion Titanides ( female ) Dione Eurybia Mnemosyne Phoebe Rhea Tethys Theia Themis Hyperionides Eos Helios Selene Koionides Asteria Leto Lelantos Krionides Astraeus Pallas Perses Iapetionides Atlas Epimetheus Menoetius Prometheus Mousai ( Muses ) Aoide Arche Melete Mneme Olympian deities Dodekatheon Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Demeter Dionysus Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Poseidon Zeus Theoi Olympioi Asclepius Deimos 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Question: what does the sun represent in greek mythology
Answer: Helios