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.
Swear by the plain of Earth, by Helios my father’s sire, and, in one comprehensive oath, by all the race of gods.
Up, then, Medea, spare not the secrets of thy art in plotting and devising;
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.
"‘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 - seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty head in each flock.
"Meanwhile Lampetie went straight off to the sun and told him we had been killing his cows, whereon he flew into a great rage, and said to the immortals, ‘Father Zeus, and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss, I must have vengeance on the crew of Odysseus’ ship:
for these cattle and sheep belong to the mighty sun, who sees and gives ear to everything.