Editing Rhodos (section)

== Mythology ==
The poet [[Pindar]] tells the story, that when the gods drew lots for the places of the earth, Helios being absent received nothing. He complained to Zeus about it, who offered to make the division again. Helios refused, for he had seen a new island about to rise from the sea. So Helios, with [[Zeus]]' consent, claimed a new island (Rhodes), which had not yet risen from the sea. And after it rose from the sea he lay with her and produced seven sons.<ref>Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7 7.54–74]. According to Gantz, p. 31, this "tale survives only in Pindar (and may well be a local tradition or poetic invention)".</ref> According to another source, it was Helios himself who caused the water overflowing the island to disappear, and after that he named this island "Rhodes" after Rhodos.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#56.3 5.56.3]</ref>

By Helios, Rhodos was the mother of the [[Heliadae]], who succeeded the Telchines as rulers of Rhodes. According to Pindar, Rhodos had, by Helios, seven sons.<ref>Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pind.%20O.%207&lang=original 7.71–74]</ref> Pindar does not name the sons, but according to [[Diodorus Siculus]], the Heliadae were [[Ochimus]], [[Cercaphus]], [[Actis (mythology)|Actis]], Macar (i.e. [[Macareus (son of Helios)|Macareus]]), [[Candalus]], [[Triopas]], and [[Tenages]].<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#56.5 5.56.5]</ref> Diodorus Siculus also says that Helios and Rhodos had one daughter, [[Electryone]]. A scholion to Pindar gives the same list of sons, with Macareus (for Macar) and naming the last Heliadae as Phaethon, "the younger, whom the Rhodians call Tenages".<ref>Scholion to Pindar, ''Olympian'' 7.132a (Fowler 2001, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA205 p. 205]), which quotes [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]] as calling their mother "Rhode" rather than "Rhodos". Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA591 p. 591] in his list of the sons of Rhodos and Helios given by the scholion to Pindar, omits (apparently inadvertently) Ochimos, though he does mention him later (p. 592) as one of the brothers (along with Cercaphus) as not having participated in the murder of Tenages.</ref> The older Phaethon referred to here probably being the famous [[Phaethon]] (whose story is told by [[Ovid]]) who drove Helios' chariot.<ref>Fowler 2013, p. 592, says that "It is probably safe to assume ... but not quite certain". For Ovid's account see ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:1.746 1.750–2.324]</ref>  The scholion on ''[[Odyssey]]'' 17.208 (perhaps drawing on either of the lost tragedies ''Heliades'' (Daughters of Helios) by [[Aeschylus]], and ''Phaethon'', by [[Euripides]]), also makes Rhodos the mother, by Helios, of this famous Phaethon, as well as three daughters: [[Lampetie]], [[Aegle (mythology)|Aigle]], and [[Phaethousa]].<ref>Gantz, p. 32; [[James George Frazer|Frazer]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.14.3 note 2] to Apollodorus, 3.14.3; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA591 p. 591]. The scholion cites "the tragedians" as his source; for an account of these two lost plays, and their being possible sources for the scholion, see Gantz, pp. 31–32.</ref> (In the ''Odyssey'', Lampetie and Phaethousa, the shepherds of Helios' cattle and sheep on [[Thrinacia]], are instead the daughters of Helios by [[Neaera (consort of Helios)|Neaera]].)<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:12.111-12.152 12.131–133]; Gantz, pp. 30, 34</ref>

When [[Aphrodite]] cursed Helios and made him fall in love with a mortal princess named [[Leucothoe (daughter of Orchamus)|Leucothoe]], he is said to have forgotten about Rhodos, among other lovers.<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.193.xml 4.192–270]</ref>