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In Greek mythology, god of the Sun, identified with the Roman god Apollo. Helios appears driving a four-horse chariot through the sky.

Helios

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In Greek mythology, the god of the Sun; a Titan who drove the Sun's chariot across the sky. He was the father of Phaethon , who almost set the Earth alight. From the 5th century BC , Helios was identified with the god Apollo . Genealogy His parents were the Titans Hyperion and Thea, and his sisters were the Moon goddess Selene and Eos , goddess of the dawn. He married Persë, daughter of the river god Oceanus, by whom he had the enchantress Circe and Pasiphae , later wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of the Minotaur. Phaethon was his son by Clymene. Myth Homer described Helios in his Odyssey as a god who rose from Oceanus (the river believed to encircle the Earth) in the east, traversed the heavens, seeing and hearing everything on his way, and descended to Oceanus in the west. Later writers described magnificent palaces in the east and west, between which he travelled in a fiery chariot drawn by four horses; the creatures grazed on the Islands of the Blessed. As watcher over the…
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Helios was a West German/United States two spacecraft programme designed to study the Sun and the interplanetary medium. The spacecraft investigated the solar wind, magnetic and electric fields, cosmic rays and micrometeorites. Helios 1 was launched on 10 December 1974 and Helios 2 just over a year…
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From Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
In myth, the god Helios was the personification of the Sun. Helios was not important in Greek religion , except for his nationalistic cult on the island of Rhodes . Elsewhere he was more of a poetic fancy—a charioteer who drives his horses across the sky each day and returns by night, sailing in a…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In Greek mythology, the god of the Sun; a Titan who drove the Sun's chariot across the sky. He was the father of Phaethon , who almost set the Earth alight. From the 5th century BC , Helios was identified with the god Apollo . Genealogy His parents were the Titans Hyperion and Thea, and his sisters…
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From The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
the sun. In early Greece Helios was always treated with reverence but received little actual cult. Anaxagoras’ announcement that the ‘sun was a red-hot mass’ caused outrage (DL 2. 12, etc.) and it was not uncommon to salute and even pray to the sun at its rising and setting (Pl. Symp. 220d, Leg. …
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From The Chambers Dictionary
denoting sun. [Gr hēlios the sun] /-sen'trik/ adj (Gr kentron centre; astron ) having the sun as centre. adv. /-krōm/ n (Gr chrōma colour) a photograph in natural colours. adj. n. n (Gr graphē a drawing) an apparatus for signalling by flashing the sun's rays; an engraving obtained photographically; …
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From Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Helios in his sun-chariot brings in the...
The Sun and its god, known as Sol to the Romans. He was the son of the Titans HYPERION and Theia, and the brother of SELENE (Moon) and EOS (Dawn). By day he brought light to the world by driving his four-horse sun-chariot across the sky from east to west ( Fig. 81 ), as his Homeric Hymn (31) …
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From Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects
Variations: chariot of Sol, chariot of the Sun, Helios's chariot, Sol's chariot, Sol Invictus's chariot In classical Greek mythology, Helios (Sol), the personification of the sun and one of the Titans, had a quadriga (a chariot drawn by four horses abreast) that he drove across the sky on a daily…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(hē'lēŏs) [Gr.,=sun], in Greek religion and mythology, the sun god, son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. Each morning he left a palace in the east and crossed the sky in a golden chariot. In the evening he rested in another palace in the west and then sailed to the east along the river Oceanus. …
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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