In later myths, Helios's chariot was erroneously translated as being the sun itself. Helios meanwhile took Clymene, a minor sea-goddess, as his wife, but he had several mortal lovers. Rhode, daughter of Poseidon, bore him several sons. He was also father of King Augeas of Elis whose stables were cleaned by Hercules on his Sixth Labor, and the goddess Circe, who he gave the island Aeaea.
One of his most famous children was a mortal son named Phaethon who lived in Egypt and was a close friend of Epaphus, the heir to the throne of Libya. Phaethon boasted that he had flown Helios's golden chariot as it traversed the route of the sun across the sky to Epaphus and sought out Helios far east of Greece for permission to guide the chariot. Having sworn by the sacred waters of the Styx, Helios hesitantly allowed his son to guide the sun-chariot unattended, but as Phaethon tried to sway the horses from their route, their brilliance began to scorch the earth and Zeus blasted the foolish mortal with a thunderbolt for his hubris.
In grieving for their brother, Phaethon's sisters, the Heliades, were transformed into poplars by his grave near the Eridanus River modern Po in Italy where he was buried. Despite his responsibility to his actions, Helios wasn't reprimanded for his dereliction to duty because of his vow. Although he was not considered part of the high council of the Olympian gods, he was a valued allied of the pantheon.
He disputed worship rites in Corinth with Poseidon and with Briareus deciding between them, they decided to share it equally; Helios received the heights, and Poseidon the isthmus. In the course of his travels, Helios patrolled the skies over Ancient Greece and often described to Zeus of events of importance to the gods.
He served as witness to the abduction of Persephone by Hades and also informed Hephaestus that his wife Aphrodite had been unfaithful to him.
Angry at Helios for revealing her fling with Hephaestus' brother, Ares, Aphrodite smote him with love for the Persian princess Leucothoe and he seduced her. Helios mystically gave her eternal life as a shrub that gave frankincense and punished Clytie by turning her into a heliotrope, a flower which follows the course of the sun through the day.
Most often, people viewed or portrayed Helios as a mighty charioteer, driving his flaming chariot or gleaming horses from east to west across the sky each day. At night, according to the legend, Helios crossed back to the east by floating in a golden cup on the stream of Ocean, the mythical river thought to encircle the flat earth. Because Helios was in the sky all day looking down on the earth, people assumed he saw and heard everything that went on in that domain; thus, both gods and humans called on him as a witness to various events or oaths sworn.
Helios was usually depicted as a beardless and very handsome man in purplish robes, crowned with a golden aureole, which accented his role as the Sun God. The characteristic chariot was drawn by four winged horses. There is a confusion in Greek Mythology regarding the identity of the god of the Sun. After becoming a god again and returning to the sun palace, Apollo notes that it had reverted to its old Helios smell as the palace does every time that Apollo is gone for an extended period of time.
While he was in possession of the sun palace, Helios had baked it with the scent of Titan : pungent and saccharine, reminiscent of Axe body spray.
During his glory days, Helios was much like Apollo, always chatting, joking and flirting while strolling around Olympus. However, after being replaced by Apollo and banished to Tartarus, he became distant, angry and resentful, principally at Apollo. He also hates his granddaughter Medea, due to her bounding his will to hers. When Phaethon meets him in Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes , Helios is depicted as sitting on a throne constructed entirely from emeralds, dressed in flowing purple robes that showed off his tan, with his pupils blazed "like pilot lights for industrial ovens" and a wreath of golden laurels crowning his dark hair.
Helios possessed the standard powers of a Titan. He is equal to Selene and possibly equal to Apollo and Artemis. Hyperion, the Titan god of light and Lord of the East, is Helios's father and while their relationship with each other is unknown, it is possible that Helios cares for him.
Theia, Titaness of Sight and Splendor and Hyperion's consort, is Helios's mother and though their relationship with each other is unknown, it is likely that he cares for her since she is his mother. Phaethon was Helios's son, born to him and the Oceanid Klymene.
Helios left to return to his duties shortly after Phaethon's birth so Pantheon only knew Helios's identity though his mother's stories of him. As Phaethon grew up, Prince Epaphos demanded proof from Phaethon that he was indeed the son of Helios after Phaethon boasted that his father was better.
After arriving home, Phaethon wished to see Helios and was told to go to his palace in the east. Odysseus and his surviving crew land on the island of Thrinacia, which is sacred to Helios and is where his cattle and sheep were kept. Although Odysseus warns his men not to, they ignore what Odysseus says and impiously kill and eat some of the god's cattle. At some point, Helios seems to be riding across the sea in the cup of the Delphic tripod, which appears to be a solar reference.
When Hercules was traveling to Erytheia to retrieve the cattle of Geryon he crossed the Libyan desert and was so frustrated by the heat that he shot an arrow at Helios. The sun god was so surprised by the demigod's daring that he gave Hercules the golden cup that he used to sail across the sea every night from west to east in order to reach Erytheia. Zeus paired Aphrodite up with Hephaestus and resulted in Ares's outrage. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
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