Apollon in Milet/Didyma, Histria, Myus, Naukratis und auf Zypern. Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Symposium, Tagung, Kongress. "Apollon Delphinios – Apollon Didymeus: Zwei Gesichter eines milesischen Gottes und ihr Bezug zur Kolonisation Milets in archaischer Zeit". Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas ^ "KN 842 E", DĀMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo, University of Oslo.^ See Ὑπερίων in An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon.For a genealogical table of the descendants of Hyperion and Theia see Grimal, p. Other accounts make Selene the daughter of the Titan Pallas ( Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, 99–100) or of Helios ( Euripides, The Phoenician Women 175 ff. The Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios 1–8 calls Hyperion's sister and mate "Euryphaëssa" probably, an epithet of Theia, see Morford, p. Hyperion Hesiod, Theogony 131–136 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 26, 74 Apollodorus, 1.1.3. ĭiodorus also recorded an unorthodox version of the myth, in which Hyperion married his sister Basileia and had two children by her, Helios and Selene their brothers, envious of their happy issue and fearful that Hyperion would divert the royal power to himself, conspired and killed Hyperion along with his two children, leaving Basileia in great distress. Of Hyperion we are told that he was the first to understand, by diligent attention and observation, the movement of both the sun and the moon and the other stars, and the seasons as well, in that they are caused by these bodies, and to make these facts known to others and that for this reason he was called the father of these bodies, since he had begotten, so to speak, the speculation about them and their nature. In literature, the Sun is often referred to as "Hyperion's bright son." Diodorus Siculus Īccording to the rationalizing historian Diodorus Siculus, Hyperion was the name of the first person to understand the movement of the sun and moon, and their effect on the seasons, and explains that, because of this, he was said to be their "father": In later sources the two sun-gods are distinctly father and son. But in the Iliad and elsewhere in the Odyssey, Helios is also called "Helios Hyperion" with Hyperion here either being used as a patronymic or other epithet, while also in the Homeric epics, and in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, besides being called Helios, he is sometimes also called simply Hyperion. Hyperion is Helios' father in Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. In early sources sometimes the two were considered to be distinct, with Hyperion being the father of Helios, but sometimes they were apparently identified, with Hyperion being simply a title of, or another name for, Helios himself. Hyperion, along with all his brothers sans Oceanus, attacked their father Uranus and held him down as Cronus castrated him. As a Titan, one of the oldest generation of gods, Hyperion was a fitting father for these three sky-gods who, as elements of the natural world, must have been conceived of as having come into being near the beginning of the cosmos.
He seems to exist only to provide a father for the three celestial deities Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn). Mythology Īs is the case for most of the Titans, there are no myths or functions for Hyperion. There is a possible attestation of his name in Linear B ( Mycenaean Greek) in the lacunose form ]pe-rjo-??-pe-rjo-) though it has been suggested that the name actually reads " Apollo" ( -pe-rjo-). "Hyperion" means "he that walks on high" or simply "the god above", often joined with "Helios".