Editing Helios (section)

==== Odyssey ====
[[File:Pellegrino Tibaldi 001.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|''The companions of Odysseus rob the cattle of Helios'', fresco by Palazzo Poggi, 1556.]]

During Odysseus' journey to get back home, he arrives at the island of Circe, who warns him not to touch Helios' sacred cows once he reaches Thrinacia, or the god would keep them from returning home. Though Odysseus warns his men, when supplies run short they kill and eat some of the cattle. The guardians of the island, Helios' daughters Phaethusa and Lampetia, tell their father about this. Helios then appeals to Zeus telling him to dispose of Odysseus' men, rejecting the crewmen's compensation of a new temple in Ithaca.<ref>Loney, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=6Y6ADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 92]</ref> Zeus destroys the ship with his lightning bolt, killing all the men except for Odysseus.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0218%3Abook%3D12%3Acard%3D8 12.352–388]</ref>