Was it Apollo or Helios? - Mythology & Folklore Stack Exchange
Jun 20, 2016 · Apollo is initially the god of song, music and poetry, but considered as a solar-god too. Since it is one of the 12 leading god, he took the place of Helios many times. This …
What exactly did Apollo do with respect to the Sun?
Jun 18, 2015 · Helios is extensively discussed in Book XII of the Odyssey, for example. From the 5th century BCE and onwards Helios started to be identified with Apollo. An early reference to …
Was Apollo the sun god in Augustan Rome?
Jun 2, 2016 · Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 3rd century CE. Wikipedia (Apollo) I am confident that Apollo was the god of the sun, …
Is Phoebus an alternate name for Apollo or is a description of …
In Homer, the deity commonly appears as Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων, "Phoebus Apollo," but also simply as Φοῖβος, "Phoebus". Due to the later conflation of Apollo with the Titan god Helios, "Sun," who …
What is this myth about Helios? - Mythology & Folklore Stack …
Jan 8, 2016 · You are confusing Helios, the original Titan Greek sun god, with Phaethon, the son of Apollo (or maybe Helios) who insisted on driving the sun's chariot and couldn't control the …
greek - What is the difference between Hecate, Selene, Artemis, …
May 4, 2015 · Hence, we have Romans writing that Mercury/Hermes was the same god as Thoth of the Egyptians -- or Odin of the Germans. Sometimes with more than one identification: …
Why did the Romans name the planets after their gods?
Jan 26, 2020 · Apollo [Helios] was the god of the sun. Each day he drove his chariot of fiery horses across the sky to give light to the world. Apollo had a son called Phaethon, who was …
greek - Is there a myth of someone living in the sun? - Mythology ...
Feb 1, 2016 · So far as I know the Greco-Roman myths about the sun consistently refer to it as an object, usually the wheel of a chariot which is handled by Apollo or Helios. The Greeks didn't …
When and how did the Greek mythos transfer to the Romans?
For example the cult of Sun was introduced in Rome after Aurelian's (around 260) successful campaigns in Syria. At that time the Asiatic divinities Mithras (that is to say, the Sun) and Ba'al …
greek - Who are the twelve Olympian gods? - Mythology
Jan 10, 2017 · The remaining gods were major in that they had governance over important things - Ares, god of war, Athena, goddess of war and wisdom, Hephaestus, god of blacksmithing, …