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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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 -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Golden Titan [Helios the Sun], whose eternal eye with matchless sight illuminates all the sky. Native, unwearied in diffusing light, and to all eyes the object of delight."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios🏛️ Roman silver and gold finger ring, circa 2nd century CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Golden Titan [Helios the Sun], whose eternal eye with matchless sight illuminates all the sky. Native, unwearied in diffusing light, and to all eyes the object of delight."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios🏛️ Roman silver and gold finger ring, circa 2nd century CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Hyperionides [Helios] answered her: 'Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rheia, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades.""
Homeric Hymn to Demeter🏛️ Helios in his quadrige, 320 BCE, Musée du Louvre
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Hyperionides [Helios] answered her: 'Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rheia, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades.""
Homeric Hymn to Demeter🏛️ Helios in his quadrige, 320 BCE, Musée du Louvre
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"With sounding whip four fiery steeds you guide, when in the glittering car of day you ride, propitious on these mystic labours shine, and bless your suppliants with a life divine."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios🏛️ Helios fresco with globe and whip
#antiquidons #mythology #history #GreekRomanArt #Helios #Sol
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"With sounding whip four fiery steeds you guide, when in the glittering car of day you ride, propitious on these mystic labours shine, and bless your suppliants with a life divine."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios🏛️ Helios fresco with globe and whip
#antiquidons #mythology #history #GreekRomanArt #Helios #Sol
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And he [Apollonius of Tyana] took up a handful of frankincense and said: ‘O thou Helios, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.’"
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.31🏛️ Sol relief with snake, Domitian altar, 87 CE
#antiquidons #mythology #history #GreekRomanArt #Helios #Sol
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And he [Apollonius of Tyana] took up a handful of frankincense and said: ‘O thou Helios, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.’"
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.31🏛️ Sol relief with snake, Domitian altar, 87 CE
#antiquidons #mythology #history #GreekRomanArt #Helios #Sol
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"[Eros] turned his flight opposite the rays of morning, smiling that he had set afire that great charioteer of the heavenly car with his little darts, and the light of the loves had conquered the light of Helios (the Sun)."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33.182🏛️ Helios relief, Musée Cinquantenaire, Belgium
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"[Eros] turned his flight opposite the rays of morning, smiling that he had set afire that great charioteer of the heavenly car with his little darts, and the light of the loves had conquered the light of Helios (the Sun)."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33.182🏛️ Helios relief, Musée Cinquantenaire, Belgium
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"You will find sheep and cattle grazing there; they belong to a god, all-seeing, all-hearing Helios (the Sun). If you leave these unharmed--if you set your mind only to return--you may all of you still reach Ithaka, though with much misery."
Homer, Odyssey 11.102🏛️ Helios and Odysseus depicted on an oil lamp, Antikensammlung #München
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"You will find sheep and cattle grazing there; they belong to a god, all-seeing, all-hearing Helios (the Sun). If you leave these unharmed--if you set your mind only to return--you may all of you still reach Ithaka, though with much misery."
Homer, Odyssey 11.102🏛️ Helios and Odysseus depicted on an oil lamp, Antikensammlung #München
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"She [Gaia] prayed to Titan Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.543🏛️ Roman bronze figurine of Sol, Musée d'art et d'histoire Genève
📸 Hurni Christoph
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"She [Gaia] prayed to Titan Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.543🏛️ Roman bronze figurine of Sol, Musée d'art et d'histoire Genève
📸 Hurni Christoph
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And there grew up from the watery wave this island, and great Helios who begets the fierce rays of the sun, holds her in his dominion, that ruler of the horses breathing fire.
There long ago he lay with Rhodes and begot seven sons."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.54🏛️ Helios head from Rhodos
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And there grew up from the watery wave this island, and great Helios who begets the fierce rays of the sun, holds her in his dominion, that ruler of the horses breathing fire.
There long ago he lay with Rhodes and begot seven sons."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.54🏛️ Helios head from Rhodos
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Sol puts on his diadem of myriad rays and the corselet woven of twelve stars [the zodiac constellations] and bound by the belt which athwart the rain-clouds shows for men its many hued bow."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4. 90🏛️ Helios, Mosaic of the Planetarium, Italica
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Sol puts on his diadem of myriad rays and the corselet woven of twelve stars [the zodiac constellations] and bound by the belt which athwart the rain-clouds shows for men its many hued bow."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4. 90🏛️ Helios, Mosaic of the Planetarium, Italica
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"[#Helios the Sun] rides his chariot, 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🏛️ Silver Kylix, 3rd century BCE, Pantikapaion
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"[#Helios the Sun] rides his chariot, 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🏛️ Silver Kylix, 3rd century BCE, Pantikapaion
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"All the Children of Helios (the Sun) were easy to recognise, even from a distance, by their flashing eyes, which shot out rays of golden light."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.726🏛️ Gold stater of Tarentum with the head of Helios, struck under Alexander of Epiros, 334–330 BCE
@antiquidons @mythology #mythology #Helios #numismatics #coin
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"All the Children of Helios (the Sun) were easy to recognise, even from a distance, by their flashing eyes, which shot out rays of golden light."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.726🏛️ Gold stater of Tarentum with the head of Helios, struck under Alexander of Epiros, 334–330 BCE
@antiquidons @mythology #mythology #Helios #numismatics #coin
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The Corinthians say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helios (the Sun) about the land [of Korinthia], and that Briareos [one of the Hekatoncheires] arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmos and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helios the height above the city."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.1.5🏛️ Ceiling coffer, North Basilica of Ancient Corinth
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The Corinthians say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helios (the Sun) about the land [of Korinthia], and that Briareos [one of the Hekatoncheires] arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmos and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helios the height above the city."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.1.5🏛️ Ceiling coffer, North Basilica of Ancient Corinth
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O Father Zeus, O blessed and immortal gods, take vengeance on the crew of Laertes' son Odysseus; in their lawlessness they have slain the cattle in which I always took delight, both as I climbed the starry sky and as I took my path again back down towards the earth. Unless these men pay a just atonement for my cattle, I will descend to Hades' kingdom and shine among the dead."
Homer, Odyssey 12.261🏛️ #Helios, 150–190 CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O Father Zeus, O blessed and immortal gods, take vengeance on the crew of Laertes' son Odysseus; in their lawlessness they have slain the cattle in which I always took delight, both as I climbed the starry sky and as I took my path again back down towards the earth. Unless these men pay a just atonement for my cattle, I will descend to Hades' kingdom and shine among the dead."
Homer, Odyssey 12.261🏛️ #Helios, 150–190 CE
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Against Phineus once on a time was the Titan Phaethon [Helios] angered, wroth for the victory of [Phineus] the prophet of Phoibos [Apollon], and robbed him of his sight and sent the shameless Harpies, a winged race to dwell with him to his sorrow."
Oppian, Cynegetica 2.615🏛️ Helios bust, 2nd century CE, Ancient Agora Museum
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Against Phineus once on a time was the Titan Phaethon [Helios] angered, wroth for the victory of [Phineus] the prophet of Phoibos [Apollon], and robbed him of his sight and sent the shameless Harpies, a winged race to dwell with him to his sorrow."
Oppian, Cynegetica 2.615🏛️ Helios bust, 2nd century CE, Ancient Agora Museum
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"When Arge, a huntress, was pursuing a stag, she is said to have told it: ‘Though you equal the speed of the Sun (Sol), yet I will catch up with you.’ Sol, in anger, changed her into a doe."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 205🏛️ Sol Invictus sarcophagus
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"When Arge, a huntress, was pursuing a stag, she is said to have told it: ‘Though you equal the speed of the Sun (Sol), yet I will catch up with you.’ Sol, in anger, changed her into a doe."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 205🏛️ Sol Invictus sarcophagus
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
Apollon and Helios are distinct deities but Apollon is a sun god too.
"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16🏛️ #Apollo Belvedere replica
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
Apollon and Helios are distinct deities but Apollon is a sun god too.
"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16🏛️ #Apollo Belvedere replica
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Yesterday was the #SummerSolstice here in Europe, marking Helios' longest work day.
"For Helios' lot is toil every day and there is never any respite for him and his horses, from the moment rose-fingered Eos leaves Okeanos and goes up into the sky."
Mimnermus, Fragment 12🏛️ #Helios, 3rd century CE, Berlin Neues Museum
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
Yesterday was the #SummerSolstice here in Europe, marking Helios' longest work day.
"For Helios' lot is toil every day and there is never any respite for him and his horses, from the moment rose-fingered Eos leaves Okeanos and goes up into the sky."
Mimnermus, Fragment 12🏛️ #Helios, 3rd century CE, Berlin Neues Museum
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
"Having kissed #Apollon, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."
Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum🏛️ #Apollo Bicon by Greta's Soul
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️🌈
"Having kissed #Apollon, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."
Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum🏛️ #Apollo Bicon by Greta's Soul
https://gretasartt.tumblr.com/post/185518481871