Hyperion
deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Son of Earth and starry Heaven · the sun-god Hyperion
in the texts
Theogony
Titan son of Earth and Heaven who unites with Theia and fathers Helius, Selene, and Eos.
But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus,
And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bore great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven.
Iliad
Sun-god invoked in simile to describe Achilles' radiance in his armor.
Automedon, whip in hand, sprang up behind the horses, and after him Achilles mounted in full armor, resplendent as the sun-god Hyperion.
Hymn 28 to Athena
Hyperion is invoked indirectly as the father of the bright solar deity mentioned in the hymn.
the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athena had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders.
Hymn 31 to Helios
Titanic deity, son of Earth and starry Heaven, spouse of Euryphaessa and father of Helios, Eos, and Selene.
And now, O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing of glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one, bare to the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.