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  1. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Sól is the shield of the clouds
    and shining ray
    and destroyer of ice."
    Icelandic rune poem

    🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
    debsden.blogspot.com/

    #mythology #indieArt #history #Medievodons

  2. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Sól is the shield of the clouds
    and shining ray
    and destroyer of ice."
    Icelandic rune poem

    🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
    debsden.blogspot.com/

    #mythology #indieArt #history #Medievodons

  3. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Sól is the shield of the clouds
    and shining ray
    and destroyer of ice."
    Icelandic rune poem

    🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
    debsden.blogspot.com/

    #mythology #indieArt #history #Medievodons

  4. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Sól is the shield of the clouds
    and shining ray
    and destroyer of ice."
    Icelandic rune poem

    🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
    debsden.blogspot.com/

    #mythology #indieArt #history #Medievodons

  5. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Sól is the shield of the clouds
    and shining ray
    and destroyer of ice."
    Icelandic rune poem

    🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
    debsden.blogspot.com/

    #mythology #indieArt #history #Medievodons

  6. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
    her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
    The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
    the moon knew not what power he possessed,
    the stars knew not where they had a station."
    Poetic Edda, Völuspá

    🏛️ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history #Medievodons

  7. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
    her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
    The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
    the moon knew not what power he possessed,
    the stars knew not where they had a station."
    Poetic Edda, Völuspá

    🏛️ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history #Medievodons

  8. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
    her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
    The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
    the moon knew not what power he possessed,
    the stars knew not where they had a station."
    Poetic Edda, Völuspá

    🏛️ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history #Medievodons

  9. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
    her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
    The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
    the moon knew not what power he possessed,
    the stars knew not where they had a station."
    Poetic Edda, Völuspá

    🏛️ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history #Medievodons

  10. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
    her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
    The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
    the moon knew not what power he possessed,
    the stars knew not where they had a station."
    Poetic Edda, Völuspá

    🏛️ The Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age (ca 1500-1300 BCE), depicting the Sun being drawn by a chariot, as described in #NorseMythology

    #mythology #MedievalArt #history #Medievodons

  11. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
    Hesiod, Theogony 371

    🏛️ #Helios bronze bust

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

  12. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
    Hesiod, Theogony 371

    🏛️ #Helios bronze bust

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

  13. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
    Hesiod, Theogony 371

    🏛️ #Helios bronze bust

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

  14. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
    Hesiod, Theogony 371

    🏛️ #Helios bronze bust

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

  15. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."
    Hesiod, Theogony 371

    🏛️ #Helios bronze bust

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #history

  16. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!

    "He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45

    🏛️ #Fresco, #Pompeii

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

  17. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!

    "He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45

    🏛️ #Fresco, #Pompeii

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

  18. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!

    "He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45

    🏛️ #Fresco, #Pompeii

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

  19. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!

    "He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45

    🏛️ #Fresco, #Pompeii

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

  20. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    7 days after the #Solstice: the light is returning!

    "He called to #Helios, reminding the chief of the stars of his love for Klymene, and prayed him to hold back his car & check the stalled horses with the heavenly bit, that he might prolong the sweet light, that he might go slow to his setting & with sparing whip increase the day to shine again."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.45

    🏛️ #Fresco, #Pompeii

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt #FrescoFriday

  21. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!

    It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:

    "At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
    Macrobius, #Saturnalia

    🏛️ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  22. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!

    It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:

    "At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
    Macrobius, #Saturnalia

    🏛️ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  23. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!

    It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:

    "At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
    Macrobius, #Saturnalia

    🏛️ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  24. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!

    It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:

    "At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
    Macrobius, #Saturnalia

    🏛️ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  25. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    Happy #Solstice to all who celebrate!

    It's Helios' shortest work day of the year, he is small and distant:

    "At the winter solstice, the sun would seem to be a little child like that which the Egyptians bring forth from a shrine on the appointed day, since the day is then at its shortest and the god is accordingly shown as a tiny infant."
    Macrobius, #Saturnalia

    🏛️ #Helios figurine, Antalya Museum

    #antiquidons #mythology #GreekRomanArt

  26. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
    Line 482 of Papyrus 574 of the Bibliotheque Nationale

    🏛️ Sol Invictus and Mithras, White marble relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, dated 2nd-3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  27. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
    Line 482 of Papyrus 574 of the Bibliotheque Nationale

    🏛️ Sol Invictus and Mithras, White marble relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, dated 2nd-3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  28. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
    Line 482 of Papyrus 574 of the Bibliotheque Nationale

    🏛️ Sol Invictus and Mithras, White marble relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, dated 2nd-3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  29. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
    Line 482 of Papyrus 574 of the Bibliotheque Nationale

    🏛️ Sol Invictus and Mithras, White marble relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, dated 2nd-3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  30. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
    Line 482 of Papyrus 574 of the Bibliotheque Nationale

    🏛️ Sol Invictus and Mithras, White marble relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, dated 2nd-3rd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  31. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
    Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  32. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
    Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  33. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
    Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  34. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
    Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  35. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
    Ovid, Heroides 4. 159

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in #Turkey

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt #Sol

  36. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  37. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  38. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  39. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  40. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Hastened by the golden-haired Horai Sol (the Sun) puts on his diadem of myriad rays [. . .] Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves."
    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.90

    🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, silver bowl, 3rd century CE, now in a private collection

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  41. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    🏛️ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  42. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    🏛️ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  43. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    🏛️ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  44. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    🏛️ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  45. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "He shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face."
    Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios

    🏛️ Helios, Roman bronze applique, 2nd century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  46. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."
    Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5. 300

    🏛️ Phaethon Sarcophagus, 3rd century CE, Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

    📸 Ilya Shurygin

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  47. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."
    Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5. 300

    🏛️ Phaethon Sarcophagus, 3rd century CE, Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

    📸 Ilya Shurygin

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  48. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."
    Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5. 300

    🏛️ Phaethon Sarcophagus, 3rd century CE, Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

    📸 Ilya Shurygin

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  49. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."
    Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5. 300

    🏛️ Phaethon Sarcophagus, 3rd century CE, Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

    📸 Ilya Shurygin

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  50. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "The Daughters of the Sun, the Lord of Omens, shed [tears] for Phaethon slain, when by Eridanos' flood they mourned for him. These, for undying honour to his son, the god [Helios] made amber, precious in men's eyes."
    Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 5. 300

    🏛️ Phaethon Sarcophagus, 3rd century CE, Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei

    📸 Ilya Shurygin

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  51. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
    Homer, Odyssey 11.18

    🏛️ Helios (possibly Alexander "the Great" of Macedon) with 7 rays and long hair, bronze bust, 1st century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  52. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
    Homer, Odyssey 11.18

    🏛️ Helios (possibly Alexander "the Great" of Macedon) with 7 rays and long hair, bronze bust, 1st century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  53. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
    Homer, Odyssey 11.18

    🏛️ Helios (possibly Alexander "the Great" of Macedon) with 7 rays and long hair, bronze bust, 1st century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  54. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
    Homer, Odyssey 11.18

    🏛️ Helios (possibly Alexander "the Great" of Macedon) with 7 rays and long hair, bronze bust, 1st century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  55. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Never does resplendent Helios look on this people with his beams, neither when he climbs towards the stars of heaven nor when once more he comes earthwards from the sky; dismal night overhands these wretches always."
    Homer, Odyssey 11.18

    🏛️ Helios (possibly Alexander "the Great" of Macedon) with 7 rays and long hair, bronze bust, 1st century CE

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #GreekRomanArt

  56. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E2.12

    🏛️ Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #medieval #medievalArt

  57. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E2.12

    🏛️ Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #medieval #medievalArt

  58. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E2.12

    🏛️ Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #medieval #medievalArt

  59. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E2.12

    🏛️ Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #medieval #medievalArt

  60. It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️

    "Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule [Argos], if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose."
    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E2.12

    🏛️ Helios in a medieval illuminated manuscript

    #antiquidons #mythology #history #Helios #medieval #medievalArt