In the extreme east and west lived people who tended to his horses in their stalls, people for whom summer and heat were perpetual and ripeful. The Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic statue of the god, adorned the port of Rhodes until it was destroyed in an earthquake, thereupon it was not built again. In ancient times he was worshipped in several places of ancient Greece, though his major cult centers were the island of Rhodes, of which he was patron god, Corinth and the greater Corinthia region.
The Roman Emperor Julian made Helios the central divinit in the 4th century AD. Though Helios was a relatively minor deity in Classical Greece, his worship grew more prominent in the Roman period. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. Helios is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. Helios' equivalent in Roman mythology was Sol. During the Hellenistic period, particularly the 3rd Century BCE, he became more and more identified with Apollo, the god of light, music and prophecy. He is the brother of Selene, goddess of the Moon, and Eos, goddess of the dawn. He is the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. He is often thought to be the personification of the Sun itself. Helios ( Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος, Hēlios Ἠέλιος in Homeric Greek) is the god of the Sun in Greek mythology.
Helios and Selene, by Johann Rathausky, fountain group statue in Opatija, Croatia. Many including: Clymene, Clytie, Perse, Rhodos, and LeucotheaĪchelous, Acheron, Actis, Aeëtes, Aex, Aegiale, Aegle, Aetheria, Aethon, Aloeus, Astris, Augeas, Bisaltes, Candalus, Cercaphus, the Charites, Chrysus, Cheimon, Circe, Clymenus, the Corybantes, Cos, Dioxippe, Dirce, Eiar, Electryone, Helia, Hemera, Ichnaea, Lampetia, Lelex, Macareus, Mausolus, Merope, Ochimus, Pasiphaë, Perses, Phaethon, Phaethusa, Phasis, Phoebe, Phorbas, Phthinoporon, Sterope, Tenages, Theros, Thersanon and Triopas
Sun, chariot, horses, aureole, whip, heliotropium, globe, cornucopia, ripened fruit
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