It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"And now the shining light of Helios was dipped in Okeanos, trailing black night (Nyx) across the grain-giving land."
Homer, Iliad 8.485
#Helios in his chariot, red-figure vase painting
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"And now the shining light of Helios was dipped in Okeanos, trailing black night (Nyx) across the grain-giving land."
Homer, Iliad 8.485
#Helios in his chariot, red-figure vase painting
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"Now Helios (the Sun) of a new day struck on the ploughlands, rising out of the quiet water and the deep stream of Okeanos to climb the sky."
Homer, Iliad 7.422
#Helios rising votive marble relief, 2nd century CE
@antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Helios #ReliefWednesday
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"Helios, Helios, why have you forsaken me?"
VL 1: Codex Bobiensis, Gospel of Mark 15:34
Christ-Helios #Mosaic, 4th century CE, Saint Peter Necropolis, Vatican
@antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Helios #MosaicMonday
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"Jupiter seeing that he [Erikhthonios] first among men yoked horses in four-horse chariots, admired the genius of a man who could rival the invention of #Sol (the Sun), who first among the gods made use of the quadriga."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.13
Quadriga of the Sun, 6th century BCE, Temple C, Selunte, Magna Graecia
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday!
"Phoibos [Helios the Sun], who, from the summit of his chariot, sets the world aflame with his dazzling rays, Phoibos, a mighty deity amongst the gods and adored amongst mortals."
#Aristophanes, Birds 563
#Helios-Sol as Sunday with aureola, mosaic, 3rd century CE, Villa Orbe-Boscéaz, Suisse
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