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| In the ]'s ] the sun god is called ''Helios Hyperion'', 'Sun High-one'. | In the ]'s ] and ] the sun god is called ''Helios Hyperion'', 'Sun High-one'. But in the ''Odyssey'', ]'s ''Theogony'' and the ''Homeric Hymn to Demeter'' the sun is once in each work called ''Hyperonides'' 'son of Hyperion' and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other places. | ||
| In later Greek literature '''Hyperion''' is distinguished from ''Helios'' as a ], the son of ] 'Earth' and ] 'Sky' and the father of ] 'Sun', ] 'Moon' and ] 'Dawn' by his sister ]: | In later Greek literature '''Hyperion''' is always distinguished from ''Helios'' as a ], the son of ] 'Earth' and ] 'Sky' and the father of ] 'Sun', ] 'Moon' and ] 'Dawn' by his sister ] or Euryphaessa: | ||
| :"Theia yielded to Hyperion's love and gave birth | :"Theia yielded to Hyperion's love and gave birth | ||
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In the Homer's Iliad and Odyssey the sun god is called Helios Hyperion, 'Sun High-one'. But in the Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter the sun is once in each work called Hyperonides 'son of Hyperion' and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other places.
In later Greek literature Hyperion is always distinguished from Helios as a Titan, the son of Gaea 'Earth' and Uranus 'Sky' and the father of Helios 'Sun', Selene 'Moon' and Eos 'Dawn' by his sister Theia or Euryphaessa:
- "Theia yielded to Hyperion's love and gave birth
- to great Helios and bright Selene and Eos,
- who brings light to all the mortals of this earth
- and to the immortal gods who rule the wide sky."
- (Hesiod, Theogony, 371-374)
The Titan Hyperion is the subject of Hyperion, an unfinished epic poem by John Keats