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Helios
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  • They were not Helios' daughter, raised on stories of breaking the world.†   (source)
  • Helios the Sun was bound to no will but his own, and none might say what he would do.†   (source)
  • None had such a golden look except the direct line of Helios.†   (source)
  • It is I, Circe, daughter of Helios, witch of Aiaia.†   (source)
  • Helios and Oceanos were often at each other's tables in those days.†   (source)
  • Helios, you have the strangest children.†   (source)
  • Helios would never defend me, but I would not tell Odysseus that.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you a truth about Helios and all the rest.†   (source)
  • Helios and Oceanos had turned the tide of war, everyone knew it.†   (source)
  • Zeus had demanded the discipline of Helios' blood.†   (source)
  • "Your father — " he said, stumbling a little, for speaking of Helios always unnerved him.†   (source)
  • And, of course, your father Helios is zealous in his vengeances.†   (source)
  • But I was the blood of Helios, and no light could blind me.†   (source)
  • Watching Zeus and Helios negotiate is always good entertainment.†   (source)
  • Like everyone, she knew the stories of Helios' temper when he was crossed.†   (source)
  • You are in the house of the goddess Circe, daughter of Helios, and her son, called Telegonus.†   (source)
  • Helios frowned at his draughts in irritation.†   (source)
  • I was fishing in the cove when Helios came.†   (source)
  • I was a daughter of Helios, surely one of those ragged men would have had me.†   (source)
  • He was a divine son of Helios, bright and shining, true-voiced and clever, with hopes of a throne.†   (source)
  • "You are a daughter of Helios, are you not?" he said, when he had finished, and I'd stepped back.†   (source)
  • He was the father of Helios, the first sun god.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was nothing compared to me—the immortal sorceress, daughter of Helios, sister of Circe!†   (source)
  • Then, of course, I have the whole 'sun god' gig, which I inherited from Helios.†   (source)
  • They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†   (source)
  • I mean, I knew the legends about Apollo—or sometimes Helios—driving a big sun chariot across the sky.†   (source)
  • Then last year Apollo said something about the old god Helios disappearing and leaving him with the duties of the sun god.†   (source)
  • They couldn't afford all those temple sacrifices, so they laid off Helios and Selene and folded their duties into our job descriptions.†   (source)
  • I gave her an embossed gold cup to tell me all she knew of Circe, daughter of Helios, witch of Aiaia.†   (source)
  • None shrank and simpered as you did, and yet great Helios stepped on you all the faster, because you were already crouched at his feet.†   (source)
  • Are you not the daughter of Helios?†   (source)
  • We do not get our charms from Helios.†   (source)
  • Spoilsport Helios, ruining their fun.†   (source)
  • Helios could not speak back openly, but he could make an answer of sorts, a message of defiance to rebalance the scales.†   (source)
  • Some said it was because Helios had always hated Kronos' vaunting pride; others whispered that his prophetic gift gave him foreknowledge of the outcome of the war.†   (source)
  • She would have told Helios by now.†   (source)
  • Daughter of Helios, Bright-eyed Circe, Mistress of Beasts and Witch of Aiaia, grant me sanctuary on your dread isle, for I have no husband and no home, and nowhere else in the world is safe for me and my son.†   (source)
  • You are a daughter of Helios.†   (source)
  • And have you asked Helios?†   (source)
  • Think, daughter of Helios.†   (source)
  • Helios and his endless wrath.†   (source)
  • Daughter of Helios.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to be Helios.†   (source)
  • Not even Helios could glimpse us through, it, and his hot ray is finest at discerning.†   (source)
  • Let Talthybios prepare for sacrifice, in the army's name, a boar to Zeus and Helios.†   (source)
  • O Helios, by whom all things are seen, all overheard!†   (source)
  • Bring down a black ewe and a snow-white ram for sacrifice to Earth and Helios; we here shall dedicate a third to Zeus.†   (source)
  • While the fair day waxed in heat through all the morning hours missiles from both sank home and men went down, until when Helios bestrode mid-heaven the Father cleared his golden scales.†   (source)
  • They are that breed that Zeus who views the wide world gave to Tros in fee for Ganymedes, under the Dawn and under Helios the finest horses in the world.†   (source)
  • Bright Helios had just begun to strike across the plowlands, rising heavenward out of the deep smooth-flowing Ocean stream, when these two groups met on the battlefield, with difficulty distinguishing the dead men, one by one.†   (source)
  • You and your anger do not affect me, you may betake yourself to the uttermost margin of earth and sea, where Iapetos and Kronos rest and never bask in the rays of Helios who moves all day in heaven, nor rejoice in winds, but lie submerged in Tartaros.†   (source)
  • In prayer he raised his eyes to the broad sky and said: "May Zeus, all-highest and first of gods, be witness first, then Earth and Helios and the Furies underground who punish men for having broken oaths, I never laid a hand on your Briseis, proposing bed or any other pleasure; in my quarters the girl has been untouched.†   (source)
  • Ares had showered her with gifts
    and showered Hephaestus' marriage bed with shame
    but a messenger ran to tell the god of fire—
    Helios, lord of the sun, who'd spied the couple
    lost in each other's arms and making love.
    Hephaestus, hearing the heart-wounding story,
    bustled toward his forge, brooding on his revenge—
    planted the huge anvil on its block and beat out chains,
    not to be slipped or broken, all to pin the lovers on the spot.
    This snare the Firegod forged, ablaze with…†   (source)
  • He's lost his crew and hollow ship
    on the wine-dark waters off Thrinacia Island.
    Zeus and Helios raged, dead set against Odysseus
    for his men-at-arms had killed the cattle of the Sun,
    so down to the last hand they drowned in crashing seas.
    But not Odysseus, clinging tight to his ship's keel—
    the breakers flung him out onto dry land, on Scheria,
    the land of Phaeacians, close kin to the gods themselves,
    and with all their hearts they prized him like a god,
    showered the man with…†   (source)
  • And goddesses herd them on,
    nymphs with glinting hair, Phaethusa, Lampetie,
    born to the Sungod Helios by radiant Neaera.
    Their queenly mother bred and reared them both
    then settled them on the island of Thrinacia-
    their homeland seas away—
    to guard their father's sheep and longhorn cattle.
    Leave the beasts unharmed, your mind set on home,
    and you all may still reach Ithaca—bent with hardship,
    true—but harm them in any way, and I can see it now:
    your ship destroyed, your men…†   (source)
  • …the power

    to curb their wild desire and curb your own, what's more,
    from the day your good trim vessel first puts in
    at Thrinacia Island, flees the cruel blue sea.
    There you will find them grazing,
    herds and fat flocks, the cattle of Helios,
    god of the sun who sees all, hears all things.
    Leave the beasts unharmed, your mind set on home,
    and you all may still reach Ithaca—bent with hardship,
    true—but harm them in any way, and I can see it now:
    your ship destroyed, your men…†   (source)
  • So up with you now,
    let's drive off the pick of Helios' sleek herds,
    slaughter them to the gods who rule the skies up there.
    If we ever make it home to Ithaca, native ground,

    erect at once a glorious temple to the Sungod,
    line the walls with hoards of dazzling gifts!
    But if the Sun, inflamed for his longhorn cattle,
    means to wreck our ship and the other gods pitch in—
    I'd rather die at sea, with one deep gulp of death,
    than die by inches on this desolate island here!'
    So…†   (source)
  • …I called a muster, warning my shipmates yet again,
    'Friends, we've food and drink aplenty aboard the ship—
    keep your hands off all these herds or we will pay the price!
    The cattle, the sleek flocks, belong to an awesome master,
    Helios, god of the sun who sees all, hears all things.'
    So I warned, and my headstrong men complied.
    But for one whole month the South Wind blew nonstop,
    no other wind came up, none but the South-southeast.
    As long as our food and ruddy wine held…†   (source)
  • …gods:
    'Father Zeus! the rest of you blissful gods who never die—
    you with your fatal sleep, you lulled me into disaster.
    Left on their own, look what a monstrous thing
    my crew concocted!'
    Quick as a flash
    with her flaring robes Lampetie sped the news
    to the Sun on high that we had killed his herds
    and Helios burst out in rage to all the immortals:
    'Father Zeus! the rest of you blissful gods who never die—
    punish them all, that crew of Laertes' son Odysseus—
    what an outrage!†   (source)
  • …struggle ….
    Of all the pitiful things I've had to witness,
    suffering, searching out the pathways of the sea,
    this wrenched my heart the most.
    But now, at last,
    putting the Rocks, Scylla and dread Charybdis far astern,
    we quickly reached the good green island of the Sun
    where Helios, lord Hyperion, keeps his fine cattle,
    broad in the brow, and flocks of purebred sheep.
    Still aboard my black ship in the open sea
    I could hear the lowing cattle driven home,
    the bleating sheep.†   (source)
  • …to the oarlocks,
    thrashing with polished oars, frothing the water white.
    Now with a sharp sword I sliced an ample wheel of beeswax
    down into pieces, kneaded them in my two strong hands
    and the wax soon grew soft, worked by my strength
    and Helios' burning rays, the sun at high noon,
    and I stopped the ears of my comrades one by one.
    They bound me hand and foot in the tight ship-

    erect at the mast-block, lashed by ropes to the mast—
    and rowed and churned the whitecaps stroke…†   (source)
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