Hyperion (Titan)

For other uses, see Hyperion.
Hyperion
Member of the Titans
Ancient GreekὙπερίων
BattlesTitanomachy
Genealogy
ParentsUranus and Gaia
Siblings
  • Briareus
  • Cottus
  • Gyges
Other siblings
Half-siblings
ConsortTheia
OffspringHelios, Eos and Selene
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In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/haɪˈpɪəriən/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Ὑπερίων, 'he who goes before')[1] was one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky).[2] With his sister, the Titaness Theia, Hyperion fathered Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn).[3]

Hyperion was, along with his son Helios, a personification of the sun, with the two sometimes identified.[4] John Keats's abandoned epic poem Hyperion is among the literary works that feature the figure.

  1. ^ Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Smith, s.v. Hyperion.
  2. ^ Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Morford, p. 40; Keightley, p. 47; Smith, s.v. Hyperion; Hesiod, Theogony 131–136; Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 26, 74; Apollodorus, 1.1.3.
  3. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 371–374; Apollodorus, 1.2.2. The Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios 1–8 calls Hyperion's sister and mate "Euryphaëssa" probably, an epithet of Theia, see Morford, p. 40; West 2003b, p. 215 n. 61; Tripp, s.v. Hyperion. Other accounts make Selene the daughter of the Titan Pallas (Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, 99–100) or of Helios (Euripides, The Phoenician Women 175 ff.; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.191). For a genealogical table of the descendants of Hyperion and Theia see Grimal, p. 535, Table 14, see also Tables 5 and 12.
  4. ^ Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Grimal, s.v. Hyperion.