Historiae Romanorum

Helios

Helios is the son of Hyperion and Theia.  He is the sun.  He drove his four-horsed chariot across the sky every day and returned under the ocean at night in a golden cup.  With the Oceanid Perse he fathered Aeetes, the witch Circe and Pasiphae.

Source(s):

1. Hesiod.  Theogeny.

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