Helios (Helius) (The sun god) Greek Helios was husband to Rhodos, the Nymph of the island of Rhodes, which he chose as his favored abode.
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Helios (Helius) (The sun god) Greek Helios was husband to Rhodos, the Nymph of the island of Rhodes, which he chose as his favored abode. Their children--Circe, Acetes, and Phaeton--were the first inhabitants of Rhodes. Helios is usually depicted as a charioteer who drove the Sun across the Earth from east to west each day. Helios was all-seeing and often called upon as a witness (see Demeter and Persephone, under Demeter). Helios (called Hyperion by Homer) appears in both the Iliad and the Odyssey; in the latter, the cattle of Helios (Hyperion) are victims of Odysseus and his crew of hungry mariners. In later times, Helios was identified with Apollo, and, in the late Roman empire, with Sol, one of the principal gods of the Romans.
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