Editing Helios (section)

==== Elsewhere ====
Traces of Helios's worship can also be found in [[Crete]]. In the earliest period Rhodes stood in close relations with Crete, and it is relatively safe to suggest that the name "Taletos" is associated with the [[Eteocretan]] word for the sun "[[Talos]]", surviving in Zeus' epithet Tallaios,<ref name=":farn19" /> a solar aspect of the thunder god in Crete.<ref name=":kk" /><ref name=":hest">[[Hesychius of Alexandria]] s. v. [https://archive.org/details/hesychiialexand00schmgoog/page/n767/mode/2up?view=theater {{mvar|Τάλως}}]</ref> Helios was also invoked in an oath of alliance between [[Knossos]] and [[Dreros]].<ref>Farnell, note [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56576/page/n565/mode/2up?view=theater 40], vol. V</ref>

[[File:Garni Temple 02.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|left|The [[Temple of Garni]], late first century, [[Armenia]], dedicated to the solar god Helios-[[Mihr (Armenian deity)|Mihr]], from a syncretic Helleno-Armenian cult.]]

In his little-attested cults in [[Asia Minor]] it seems his identification with Apollo was the strongest.<ref>Farnell, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2NQF-MSICWEC&pg=PA138 138], vol. IV</ref>{{sfn|Fontenrose|1988|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wOtqfmkUZA8C&pg=PA115 115]}}<ref>[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' [https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm 33]</ref> It is possible that the solar elements of Apollo's Anatolian cults were influenced by Helios' cult in Rhodes, as Rhodes lies right off the southwest coast of Asia Minor.{{sfn|Fontenrose|1988|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wOtqfmkUZA8C&pg=PA113 113]}}

Archaeological evidence has proven the existence of a shrine to Helios and [[Hemera]], the goddess of the [[day]] and daylight, at the island of [[Kos]]<ref name=":farn19" /> and excavations have revealed traces of his cult at [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinope]], [[Pozzuoli]], [[Ostia Antica|Ostia]] and elsewhere.<ref name=":hoffie" /> After a plague hit the city of [[Cleonae (Phocis)|Cleonae]], in [[Phocis]], [[Central Greece (geographic region)|Central Greece]], the people there sacrificed a he-goat to Helios, and were reportedly then spared from the plague.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.11.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 10.11.5]</ref>

Helios also had a cult in the region of [[Thessaly]].<ref name=":miller">Miller, pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=-wsxBUMzY3YC&pg=PA33 33–35]</ref> Plato in his ''[[Laws (Plato)|Laws]]'' mentions the state of the [[Magnetes]] making a joint offering to Helios and Apollo, indicating a close relationship between the cults of those two gods,<ref>[[Plato]], ''[[Laws (dialogue)|Laws]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166%3Abook%3D12%3Asection%3D946b 12.946b]-[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0166%3Abook%3D12%3Asection%3D946e e]</ref> but it is clear that they were nevertheless distinct deities in Thessaly.<ref name=":miller" />

[[File:Greek inscription of Tiridates I, Garni.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An ancient Greek inscription naming King Tiridates the Sun (''Helios Tiridates'') as the founder of the Garni temple.]]

Helios is also depicted on first century BC coins found at [[Halicarnassus]],<ref>''British Museum Catalogue 'Caria'.'' pp 106-107</ref> [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] in [[Sicily]]<ref>''British Museum Catalogue 'Sicily'.'' p 229</ref> and at [[Zakynthos|Zacynthus]].<ref>''British Museum Catalogue 'Peloponnese'.'' p 101</ref> From [[Pergamon]] originates a hymn to Helios in the style of Euripides.<ref>Farnell, note [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56576/page/n565/mode/2up?view=theater 44], vol. V</ref>

In [[Apollonia, Illyria|Apollonia]] he was also venerated, as evidenced from [[Herodotus]]' account where a man named Evenius was harshly punished by his fellow citizens for allowing wolves to devour the flock of sheep sacred to the god out of negligence.<ref name=":hh993" />

The ''[[Alexander Romance]]'' names a temple of Helios in the city of [[Alexandria]].<ref>Nawotka, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MtMuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 109]</ref>