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Original Rhodes Museum
Helios, Greek "sun", the youthful, radiant, mighty
Sun god of the Greeks, son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia.
Brothers and sisters of the sun god Helios were the goddess of dawn, Eos, and Selene, the moon goddess. With his four fiery sun horses he led the sun chariot from the Okeanos, the sea, across the sky. At night he returned to the starting point in the sun cup. His son Phaeton drove the chariot too close to the earth, causing huge fires. Zeus killed him for it with a lightning strike.
Helios was often depicted with the crown of rays. Before the belief in the sun god spread over the whole of Greece, he already enjoyed cult worship on Rhodes. It was also home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the 37 m high Colossus of Rhodes, made of bronze on the outside, which illuminated the harbour entrance of the island at night with a fire vessel holding in its hands. The head of the colossus, depicting Helios, was surrounded by a corona.
Exhibit of the Archaeological Museum in Rhodes, dated 240-160 BC.
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