Editing Helios (section)

==== Disrupted schedule ====
[[File:(24) Flaxman Ilias 1795, Zeichnung 1793, 188 x 255 mm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''Hera makes Helios set earlier'', [[Iliad]] engraving, [[John Flaxman]].]]

On several instances in mythology the normal solar schedule is disrupted; he was ordered not to rise for three days during the conception of [[Heracles]], and made the winter days longer in order to look upon [[Leucothoe (daughter of Orchamus)|Leucothoe]]. [[Athena]]'s birth was a sight so impressive that Helios halted his steeds and stayed still in the sky for a long while,<ref>''[[Homeric Hymn]] 28 to [[Athena]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=28 28.13]; Waterfield, p. [https://archive.org/details/greekmythsstorie0000wate/page/52/mode/2up?q=&view=theater 53]</ref> as heaven and earth both trembling at the newborn goddess' sight.{{sfn|Penglase|1994|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=U4mFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 195]}}

In the ''[[Iliad]]'', [[Hera]] who supports the Greeks, makes him set earlier than usual against his will during battle,<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D18%3Acard%3D219 18.239–240]</ref> and later still during the same war, after his sister Eos's son [[Memnon (mythology)|Memnon]] was killed, she made him downcast, causing his light to fade, so she could be able to freely steal her son's body undetected by the armies, as he consoled his sister in her grief over Memnon's death.<ref>[[Philostratus of Lemnos]], ''[[Imagines (work by Philostratus)|Imagines]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/225#1.7.2 1.7.2]</ref>

It was said that summer days are longer due to Helios often stopping his chariot mid-air to watch from above nymphs dancing during the summer,<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Hymn to Artemis'' [https://archive.org/details/callimachuslycop00calluoft/page/76/mode/2up?view=theater 181–182]</ref><ref>Powell Barry, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mtoSEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 182]</ref> and sometimes he is late to rise because he lingers with his consort.<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]</ref> If the other gods wish so, Helios can be hastened on his daily course when they wish it to be night.<ref>Fairbanks, p. [https://archive.org/details/MythologyOfGreeceAndRomespecialReferenceToItsInfluenceOnLiterature/page/n51/mode/2up?view=theater 39]</ref>

[[File:Heracles on the sea in the bowl of Helios.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Helios's cup with Heracles in it, [[Rome]], [[Vatican Museums#Museo Gregoriano Etrusco|Museo Gregoriano Etrusco]], n. 205336.]]

When Zeus desired to sleep with [[Alcmene]], he made one night last threefold, hiding the light of the Sun, by ordering Helios not to rise for those three days.<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Library]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D4%3Asection%3D8 2.4.8]; [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], ''[[Hercules (Seneca)|Hercules Furens]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0003 24]; ''[[Argonautica Orphica]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/549#113 113].</ref>{{sfn|Stuttard|2016|page=[https://archive.org/details/greekmythologytr0000stut/page/114/mode/2up?view=theater 114]}} Satirical author [[Lucian]] of [[Samosata]] dramatized this myth in one of his ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]''.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [https://pt.calameo.com/read/000107044fc0f01286992 Hermes and the Sun]</ref>{{efn|Helios (and Lucian) is wrong here; Cronus had [[Chiron]] by [[Philyra (mythology)|Philyra]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Pseudo-Apollodorus]], [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D4 1.2.4]''</ref>}}

While Heracles was travelling to Erytheia to retrieve the cattle of [[Geryon]] for his tenth labour, he crossed the Libyan desert and was so frustrated at the heat that he shot an arrow at Helios, the Sun. Almost immediately, Heracles realized his mistake and apologized profusely ([[Pherecydes of Syros|Pherecydes]] wrote that Heracles stretched his arrow at him menacingly, but Helios ordered him to stop, and Heracles in fear desisted<ref name=":ath" />); In turn and equally courteous, Helios granted Heracles the golden cup which he used to sail across the sea every night, from the west to the east because he found Heracles' actions immensely bold. In the versions delivered by Apollodorus and Pherecydes, Heracles was only ''about to'' shoot Helios, but according to [[Panyassis]], he ''did'' shoot and wounded the god.<ref>Matthews, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d92mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 52]</ref>