\b0 The sun god, also known as Phoebus (though this was more properly the epithet of \b \cf4 \ATXht9 Apollo\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 ), he was son of the \b \cf4 \ATXht12014 Titan\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 Hyperion and the Titaness Theia and brother of Eos (the Dawn) and \b \cf4 \ATXht11905 Selene\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 (the Moon). In the morning Helios rose from the \b \cf4 \ATXht11501 Ocean\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 in the east, where his splendid palace was located, crossed the sky in a golden chariot (or bowl), and in the evening descended into the \b \cf4 \ATXht310 Ocean\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 again to the west. He was the god who saw everything that happen
ed on heaven and earth. He told \b \cf4 \ATXht7 Hephaestus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 of \b \cf4 \ATXht2 Aphrodite\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 's \b \cf4 \ATXht1012 adultery\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , informed \b \cf4 \ATXht11 Demeter\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 of \b \cf4 \ATXht11617 Persephone
\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 's\b \cf4 \ATXht11617 \ATXht1009 abduction\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , and discovered the theft of his own oxen, killed in Trinacria (Sicily) by \b \cf4 \ATXht411 Ulysses\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 ' companions. He was the father of \b \cf4 \ATXht10110 Aeδt
es\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht10324 Circe\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . Clymene bore him \b \cf4 \ATXht11620 Phaδthon\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and his sisters the Heliads. Pasiphaδ, the wife of \b \cf4 \ATXht11316 Minos\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , was also his daughter.\par
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\b \i \cf4 \ATXht1012 Ares and Aphrodite Punished by Hephaestus\par
