Helios is the Greek titan sun god, whom the Romans called Sol...
Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion, while Hesiod (Theogony 371) and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia (Hesiod) or Euryphaessa (Homeric Hymn) and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn.
Ovid also calls him Titan, in fact "lumina Titan"...
Helios Is also the guardian of oaths...
Helios is depicted as a handsome with a halo, and usually beardless, man clothed in purple robes and crowned with the shining aureole of the sun.
His sun-chariot is drawn by four steeds, sometimes winged.
Helios once allowed Phaeton to guide his chariot across the sky. The unskilled youth could not control the horses and fell towards his death.
Helios is identified with several gods including fiery Hephaistos and light-bringing Apollon....
One wife of Helios was the Nymph Rhode(meaning "rose" in the Greek language).
Rhodes gave her name to the famous Greek island of Rhodes and Helios was the island’s patron deity.
One of the island's main attractions, the Colossus of Rhodes, was built in Helios' honor and was one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World...
The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze, triumphal statue, about 32 meters high, that was constructed by the famous Chares of Lindos...
"Helios drove his chariot, pulled by four fiery steeds up to the heavens. Although the path was steep and narrow, and the steeds were wild, Helios always held them on their course.
At high noon Helios would stop at the top of the sky and look around....
At the top of the sky nothing could escape his fiery gaze...
Again he drove on, but now he gave free rein to his steeds.
The steeds were able to see Helios’s palace far to the west.
Eager to reach their stable they ran on faster and faster...."...
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