Editing Helios (section)

=== Awarding of Rhodes ===
[[File:Rhodos tetradrachm Helios.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Silver [[tetradrachm]] of [[Rhodes]] showing Helios and a rose (205-190 BC, 13.48 g)]]

According to Pindar,<ref name=":pin7">[[Pindar]], ''Olympian Odes'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DO.%3Apoem%3D7 7]</ref> when the gods divided the earth among them, Helios was absent, and thus he got no lot of land. He complained to Zeus about it, who offered to do the division of portions again, but Helios refused the offer, for he had seen a [[Rhodes|new land]] emerging from the deep of the sea; a rich, productive land for humans and good for cattle too. Helios asked for this island to be given to him, and Zeus agreed to it, with [[Lachesis]] (one of the three [[Moirai|Fates]]) raising her hands to confirm the oath. Alternatively in another tradition, it was Helios himself who made the island rise from the sea when he caused the water which had overflowed it to disappear.<ref name=":dd563">[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca Historica|Library of History]]'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#56 5.56.3]</ref> He named it Rhodes, after his lover [[Rhodos|Rhode]] (the daughter of [[Poseidon]] and Aphrodite<ref>Scholia on Pindar's ''Olympian Odes'' [https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5034.tlg001a.perseus-grc1:7.25 7.25]</ref> or [[Amphitrite]]<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Library]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D4%3Asection%3D5 1.4.5]</ref>), and it became the god's sacred island, where he was honoured above all other gods. With Rhode Helios sired seven sons, known as the [[Heliadae]] ("sons of the Sun"), who became the first rulers of the island, as well as one daughter, [[Alectrona|Electryone]].<ref name=":dd563" /> Three of their grandsons founded the cities [[Ialysos]], [[Camiros]] and [[Lindos]] on the island, named after themselves;<ref name=":pin7" /> thus Rhodes came to belong to him and his line, with the autochthonous peoples of Rhodes claiming descend from the Heliadae.<ref>[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' [https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm 47]</ref>