Helios (the Sun-god)
“the Sun-god”
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 10 anchored passages
the Sun-god · Helios · Hyperion · O sun · father's sire · sun Hyperion · sun-god · the Sun · the sun, my father's sire · the sun-god
in the texts
Medea
The sun-god, grandfather of Medea, invoked as witness to Aegeus's oath.
Up, then, Medea, spare not the secrets of thy art in plotting and devising;
Swear by the plain of Earth, by Helios my father’s sire, and, in one comprehensive oath, by all the race of gods.
By earth I swear, by the sun-god’s holy beam and by all the host of heaven that I will stand fast to the terms, I hear thee make.
Odyssey
The sun-god (called Hyperion) who owns the sacred cattle and sheep of Thrinacia and demands that Zeus punish the crew for killing them.
for these cattle and sheep belong to the mighty sun, who sees and gives ear to everything.
"‘Sun,’ said Zeus, ‘go on shining upon us gods and upon humankind over the fruitful earth.
"When we had passed the Wandering rocks, with Scylla and terrible Charybdis, we reached the noble island of the sun-god, where were the goodly cattle and sheep belonging to the sun Hyperion.