Editing Helios (section)

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[[File:Clipeus_Helios_Terme.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Bust of Helios in a clipeus, detail from a strigillated lenos [[sarcophagus]], white marble, early 3rd century CE, Tomb D in Via Belluzzo, [[Rome]].]]
Helios is featured in several of [[Lucian]]'s works beyond his ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]''. In another work of Lucian's, ''{{Interlanguage link|Icaromenippus|fi|Ikaromenippos}}'', Selene complains to the [[Menippus|titular character]] about philosophers wanting to stir up strife between herself and Helios.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''Icaromenippus'' [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:icaromenippus#section20 20]; Lucian is parodying here [[Anaxagoras]]' theory that the sun was a piece of blazing metal.</ref> Later he is seen feasting with the other gods on Olympus, and prompting Menippus to wonder how can night fall on the Heavens while he is there.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''Icaromenippus'' [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:icaromenippus#section28 28]</ref>

[[File:The music of the spheres.jpg|thumb|left|The music of the spheres: the planetary spheres, among others, on an engraving from Renaissance Italy.]]

[[Diodorus Siculus]] recorded an unorthodox version of the myth, in which Basileia, who had succeeded her father [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] to his royal throne, married her brother Hyperion, and had two children, a son Helios and a daughter Selene. Because Basileia's other brothers envied these offspring, they put Hyperion to the sword and drowned Helios in the river [[Eridanos (river of Hades)|Eridanus]], while Selene took her own life. After the massacre, Helios appeared in a dream to his grieving mother and assured her and their murderers would be punished, and that he and his sister would now be transformed into immortal, divine natures; what was known as [[Mene (goddess)|Mene]]<ref>Hard, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 46], another [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] word for the [[Moon]].</ref> would now be called Selene, and the "holy fire" in the heavens would bear his own name.<ref name=":dio">[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|Historic Library]]'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html#57.2 3.57.2–8]; Grimal, s. v. [https://archive.org/details/concisedictionar00grim/page/72/mode/2up?view=theater Basileia]</ref><ref>Caldwell, p. [https://archive.org/details/hesiodstheogony00hesi/page/40/mode/2up?q=&view=theater 41, note on lines 207–210]</ref>

It was said that Selene, when preoccupied with her passion for the mortal Endymion,<ref>[[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:dialogues-of-the-gods#section12 Aphrodite and Eros I]</ref> would give her moon chariot to Helios to drive it.<ref>[[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], ''[[Phaedra (Seneca)|Phaedra]]'' [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ATragedies_of_Seneca_(1907)_Miller.djvu/197 309–314]</ref>

[[Claudian]] wrote that in his infancy, Helios was nursed by his aunt [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]].<ref>[[Claudian]], ''Rape of Persephone'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Raptu_Proserpinae/2*.html#p323 Book II]</ref>

{{anchor|Titan (brother of Helios)}}Pausanias writes that the people of [[Titane (Sicyon)|Titane]] held that Titan was a brother of Helios, the first inhabitant of Titane after whom the town was named;<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Paus.+2.11.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.11.5]</ref> Titan however was generally identified as Helios himself, instead of being a separate figure.<ref>''Ugarit-Forschungen'', Volume 31,
Verlag Butzon & Bercker, 2000, p. 20</ref>

According to sixth century BC lyric poet [[Stesichorus]], with Helios in his palace lives his mother [[Theia]].<ref>[[Athenaeus]], ''[[Deipnosophistae|Scholars at Dinner]]'' [http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus11b.html#469 11.38]; "Now the Sun, begotten of Hyperion, was descending into his golden cup, that he might traverse the Ocean and come to the depths of dark and awful night, even to his mother and wedded wife and beloved children."</ref>

In the myth of the dragon [[Python (mythology)|Python]]'s slaying by Apollo, the slain serpent's corpse is said to have rotten in the strength of the "shining Hyperion".<ref>''[[Homeric Hymn]] 3'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D349 363-369]</ref>