Hyperion (mythology) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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)

The Titan Hyperion is the subject of Hyperion, an unfinished epic poem by John Keats

Hyperion is the main character of Friedrich Hölderlin's novel by that name.

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