Editing Helios (section)

=== Clashes and punishments ===
==== Gods ====
A myth about the origin of [[Corinth]] goes as such: Helios and Poseidon clashed as to who would get to have the city. The [[Hecatoncheires|Hecatoncheir]] Briareos was tasked to settle the dispute between the two gods; he awarded the [[Acrocorinth]] to Helios, while Poseidon was given the [[Isthmus of Corinth|isthmus]] of Corinth.<ref name=":p215">Fowler 1988, p. 98 n. 5; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.6 2.1.6], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.6 2.4.6].</ref><ref>[[Dio Chrysostom]], ''Discourses'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discourses/37*.html#p13 37.11–12]</ref>

[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]] wrote that [[Nerites (mythology)|Nerites]] was the son of the sea god [[Nereus]] and the Oceanid [[Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]]. In the version where Nerites became the lover of Poseidon, it is said that Helios turned him into a shellfish, for reasons unknown. At first Aelian writes that Helios was resentful of the boy's speed, but when trying to explain why he changed his form, he suggests that perhaps Poseidon and Helios were rivals in love.<ref>[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], ''On Animals'' [http://www.attalus.org/translate/animals14.html#28 14.28]</ref>{{sfn|Sanders|Thumiger|Carey|Lowe|2013|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=qt7JkvxScSkC&pg=PA86 86]}}

In an Aesop fable, Helios and the north wind god [[Boreas (god)|Boreas]] [[The North Wind and the Sun|argued]] about which one between them was the strongest god. They agreed that whoever was able to make a passing traveller remove his cloak would be declared the winner. Boreas was the one to try his luck first; but no matter how hard he blew, he could not remove the man's cloak, instead making him wrap his cloak around him even tighter. Helios shone bright then, and the traveller, overcome with the heat, removed his cloak, giving him the victory. The moral is that persuasion is better than force.<ref>[[Aesop]], ''[[Aesop's Fables|Fables]]'' [http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/183.htm 183]</ref>

==== Mortals ====
[[File:Nicolas Poussin - Landscape with Diana and Orion - WGA18341.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|''Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun'', by [[Nicolas Poussin]], 1658, oil on canvas]]Relating to his nature as the Sun,<ref name=":gender">Rea, Katherine A., ''The Neglected Heavens: Gender and the Cults of Helios, Selene, and Eos in Bronze Age and Historical Greece'', (2014). Classics: Student Scholarship & Creative Works. [[Augustana College (Illinois)|Augustana College]], [https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=classtudent PDF].</ref> Helios was presented as a god who could restore and deprive people of vision, as it was regarded that his light that made the faculty of sight and enabled visible things to be seen.<ref>John Peter Anton and George L. Kustas, ''Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7kq6jBE2rvEC&pg=PA236 236]</ref><ref>Decharme, pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=nU9msl7p2vMC&pg=PA241 241–242]</ref> In one myth, after [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]] was blinded by King [[Oenopion]], he traveled to the east, where he met Helios. Helios then healed Orion's eyes, restoring his eyesight.<ref>Pseudo-[[Eratosthenes]], ''[[Catasterismi|Placings Among the Stars]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=0EoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162 Orion]; 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%3D3 1.4.3]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''De astronomia'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.34.3 2.34.3]; [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], ''Commentary on the [[Aeneid]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053%3Abook%3D10%3Acommline%3D763 10.763]</ref>

In [[Phineus]]'s story, his blinding, as reported in Apollonius Rhodius's ''[[Argonautica]]'', was Zeus' punishment for Phineus revealing the future to mankind.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/114/mode/2up 2.178–86]</ref> According, however, to one of the alternative versions, it was Helios who had deprived Phineus of his sight.<ref>Scholia on [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'' 12.69</ref> [[Pseudo-Oppian]] wrote that Helios' wrath was due to some obscure victory of the prophet; after [[Boreads|Calais and Zetes]] slew the Harpies tormenting Phineus, Helios then turned him into a [[mole (animal)|mole]], a blind creature.<ref>[[Pseudo-Oppian]], ''Cynegetica'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Oppian/Cynegetica/2*.html#612 2.615]</ref> In yet another version, he blinded Phineus at the request of his son Aeëtes.<ref>Fowler, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA222 222], vol. II; Gantz, pp [https://archive.org/details/early-greek-myth-a-guide-timothy-gantz/page/352/mode/2up?view=theater 352–353].</ref>[[File:The Fall of Icarus, fresco from Pompeii, 40-79 AD.png|thumb|230px|The Fall of Icarus, ancient fresco from Pompeii, ca 40-79 AD]]

In another tale, the Athenian inventor [[Daedalus]] and his young son [[Icarus]] fashioned themselves wings made of birds' feathers glued together with wax and flew away.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DEpitome%3Abook%3DE%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D12 ''Epitome'' 1.12]</ref> According to scholia on Euripides, Icarus, being young and rashful, thought himself greater than Helios. Angered, Helios hurled his rays at him, melting the wax and plunging Icarus into the sea to drown. Later, it was Helios who decreed that said sea would be named after the unfortunate youth, the [[Icarian Sea]].{{sfn|Mastronarde|2017|page = [https://escholarship.org/content/qt5p2939zc/qt5p2939zc_noSplash_e32bfabd1126d088150b59583c6c9c38.pdf#page=183 150]}}<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DEpitome%3Abook%3DE%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D12 ''Epitome'' 1.12]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DEpitome%3Abook%3DE%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D13 13]</ref>

[[Arge]] was a huntress who, while hunting down a particularly fast stag, claimed that fast as the Sun as it was, she would eventually catch up to it. Helios, offended by the girl's words, changed her shape into that of a doe.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#205 205]</ref><ref>Alexander Stuart Murray and William H. Klapp, Handbook of World Mythology, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BOFzYThPlk8C&pg=PA288 288]</ref>

In one rare version of [[Myrrha|Smyrna]]'s tale, it was an angry Helios who cursed her to fall in love with her own father [[Cinyras]] because of some unspecified offence the girl committed against him; in the vast majority of other versions however, the culprit behind Smyrna's curse is the goddess of love Aphrodite.<ref>[[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] ''Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Serv.+Ecl.+10.18&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0091 10.18]</ref>