Helios
Character · slug: helios
Also: Sol, Hyperion’s son, the Sun, Sun
- Hyperion and Theia: Helios, Selene, and Eos
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan luminous genealogy · Hesiodic — Hyperion–Theia brood
- Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
- Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
- Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
- Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
- Poseidon and Helios Contest for Corinth
Olympian gods / Corinthian aetiology · Pausanian — Briareos arbitrates; Isthmus to Poseidon, Acrocorinth height to Helios
- Homeric Hymn to Helios (31)
Olympian gods — Helios / solar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXI — praise and genealogy of the Sun
- Homeric Hymns to Athena (11 and 28)
Olympian gods — Athena / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XI and XXVIII — city-protector praise; birth from Zeus’s head
- Fifth Labor: The Augean Stables
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (cleaning by river diversion; wage-quarrel with Augeas; Phyleus as witness; Eurystheus again refuses to count the labor)
- Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
- Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
- Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
- Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
- Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)
- Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
- Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
- Atreus and Thyestes: The Banquet of Thyestes’ Children
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean feud · Apollodorean / Aeschylean (feast; recognition; curse)
- Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
- Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
- Circe on Aeaea (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.135–574 (+ Apollodorean)
- Clytie: The Heliotrope (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — solar metamorphosis / Oceanid · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios–Clytie lore; Greek heliotropism as natural aetiology background
- Helios and Leucothoe (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Helios / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios’s love for Leucothoe (and Clytie’s betrayal)
- The Heliades: Amber Tears
Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices