Hyperion and Theia: Helios, Selene, and Eos

Catalogue ID: 01-cosmogony-theogony/034-hyperion-theia-helios-selene-eos-hesiodic

Cycle: Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan luminous genealogy

Version line: Hesiodic — Hyperion–Theia brood

Sources: Hesiod, *Theogony* 371–374; cf. *Homeric Hymn to Helios* (31), *to Selene* (32); Homer, *Od.* 12 (Helios’s cattle)

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Characters

Eos — Dawn; abductor of mortal favorites in later myths
Helios — Sun; all-seeing; later cattle-owner on Thrinacia
Hyperion — Titan father of the light-gods
Selene — Moon
Theia — Titaness mother
Uranus and Gaia — grandparents of Hyperion and Theia

Places

Earth and Olympus — what their light falls upon (Hesiodic phrase)
Olympus — domain of Helios, Selene, and Eos
Thrinacia — later seat of Helios’s herds (cross-ref Odyssey)

Themes

Narrative

Among the Titans, Hyperion (“the High One”) takes to wife Theia (“the Divine”), also called Euryphaessa in hymn tradition. Theia bears Helios the sun, Selene the moon, and Eos the dawn—who shine upon the earth and upon the immortal gods. Hesiod’s brief notice places them as the luminous generation between Titan parents and the later mythic loves and disasters of each child: Helios sees all and owns the cattle on Thrinacia; Selene is linked in later story to Endymion; Eos abducts Tithonus, Orion, and Cephalus and renews herself each morning. The triad fixes Greek cosmic lighting in genealogy rather than in abstract elements: day-star, night-orb, and the blush that opens the day are siblings under Titan parentage. Catalogue the births here; exploit and metamorphosis files remain separate.