Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described as the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn). The Roman Emperor Julian made Helios the central divinity of his short-lived revival of traditional Roman religious practices in the 4th century AD. Though Helios was a relatively minor deity in Classical Greece, his worship grew more prominent in late antiquity thanks to his identification with several major solar divinities of the Roman period, particularly Apollo and Sol.
He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight.
Helios is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining"). In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios ( / ˈ h iː l i ə s, - ɒ s/ Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced, lit.'Sun' Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god and personification of the Sun. Many including: Clymene, Clytie, Perse, Rhodos, and LeucotheaĪchelous, Acheron, Actis, Aeëtes, Aex, Aegiale, Aegle, Aetheria, Aethon, Aloeus, Astris, Augeas, Bisaltes, Candalus, Cercaphus, the Charites, Chrysus, Cheimon, Circe, Clymenus, the Corybantes, Cos, Dioxippe, Dirce, Eiar, Electryone, Helia, Hemera, Ichnaea, Lampetia, Lelex, Macareus, Mausolus, Merope, Ochimus, Pasiphaë, Perses, Phaethon, Phaethusa, Phasis, Phoebe, Phorbas, Phthinoporon, Sterope, Tenages, Theros, Thersanon and Triopas Sun, chariot, horses, aureole, whip, heliotropium, globe, cornucopia, ripened fruit
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