191.) In the Homeric hymn on Helios, he is called a son of Hyperion and Euryphaëssa. 371, &c.) From his father, he is frequently called Hyperionides, or Hyperion, the latter of which is an abridged form of the patronymic, Hyperionion.
He is described as the son of Hyperion and Theia, and as a brother of Selene and Eos. HE′LIOS (Hêlios or Êelios), that is, the sun, or the god of the sun. HYPERION (Homer Odyssey 12.168, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 19, Homeric Hymn to Athena 12, Mimnermus Frag 12, Pindar Olympian 7 str3, Ovid Metamorphoses 4.170) OFFSPRING HYPERION & EURYPHAESSA (Homeric Hymn 31) HYPERION & THEIA (Hesiod Theogony 371, Apollodorus 1.8) Helios was identified with several other gods of fire and light such as Hephaistos (Hephaestus) and light-bringing Phoibos Apollon (Phoebus Apollo). His sun-chariot was drawn by four, sometimes winged, steeds. Helios was depicted as a handsome, usually beardless, man clothed in purple robes and crowned with the shining aureole of the sun. Zeus struck the boy down with a thunderbolt. Once his son Phaethon tried to drive the chariot of the sun, but he lost control and set the earth ablaze. When he reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Okeanos back to his rising place in the East. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Okeanos (Oceanus) at the far ends of the earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds.
HELIOS (Helius) was the Titan god of the sun, a guardian of oaths, and the god of sight.
Sun ( hêlios) Helius god of the sun, Athenian red-figure krater C5th B.C., British Museum
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