Helios - Consorts and Children

Consorts and Children

  1. By Aegle the Naiad
    1. The Charites (who are otherwise called daughters of Eurynome with Zeus or of Aphrodite with Dionysus):
      1. Aglaea "splendor"
      2. Euphrosyne "mirth"
      3. Thalia "flourishing"
  2. By Clymene, the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
    1. The Heliades, mostly represented as poplars mourning Phaëton's death beside the river Eridanos, weeping tears of amber:
      1. Aetheria
      2. Helia
      3. Merope
      4. Phoebe
      5. Dioxippe
    2. Phaëton, the son who borrowed the chariot of Helios, but lost control and plunged into the river Eridanos
    3. Astris, wife of the river-god Hydaspes in India, mother of Deriades
  3. By Neaera the nymph, two daughters - guardians of the cattle of Thrinacia:
    1. Phaethusa
    2. Lampetia

(other sources list these two among the children of Clymene)

  1. By Rhode, the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
    1. The Heliadae, expert seafarers and astrologers from Rhodes:
      1. Tenages
      2. Macareus
      3. Actis
      4. Triopas
      5. Candalus
      6. Ochimus
      7. Cercaphus
      8. Auges
      9. Thrinax
    2. Electryone
  1. By Perse or Perseis, the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys:
    1. Aega
    2. Aeëtes, ruler over Colchis
    3. Circe, the minor magicians' goddess
    4. Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos of Crete
    5. Perses
  2. By Ocyrrhoe the Oceanid:
    1. Phasis, a river-god in Colchis
  3. By Leucothoe, daughter of Eurynome and Orchamus:
    1. Thersanon
  4. By Nausidame, daughter of Amphidamas of Elis:
    1. Augeas, one of the Argonauts
  5. By Gaia
    1. Bisaltes
  6. By Selene
    1. The Horae (possibly; more commonly known as daughters of Zeus)
  7. By unknown mothers:
    1. Aegiale, possible mother to Alcyone
    2. Aithon, who chopped Demeter's sacred grove and was forever famished for that (compare the myth of Erysichthon)
    3. Aix, a nymph with a beautiful body and a horrible face
    4. Aloeus, ruler over Asopia
    5. Camirus, founder of Camira, a city in Rhodes
    6. Mausolus
    7. Phorbas, father of Ambracia

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