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Hyperion (mythology) - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Mishnah, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Westerner, Allegory, Apologue, Custom, Fable, Fabliau, Fantasy, Fiction, Folklore |
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Greek deities
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| Primordial deities
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| Olympians
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| Aquatic deities
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| Chthonic deities
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| Personified concepts
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| Other deities
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| Titans
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| The Twelve Titans:
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| Oceanus and Tethys,
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| Hyperion and Theia,
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| Coeus and Phoebe,
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| Rhea, Mnemosyne,
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| Metis, Themis,
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| Crius, Iapetus
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| Sons of Iapetus:
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| Atlas, Prometheus,
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| Epimetheus, Menoetius
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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 Gaia '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)
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