Rhodos

This article is about the mythological goddess. For the island, see Rhodes. For the city, see Rhodes (city). For the ancient Greek emporium in Spain, see Roses, Girona.
Rhodos
Goddess of Rhodes
AbodeRhodes
Symbolrose
Genealogy
Parents
SiblingsTriton and Benthesikyme (full siblings by Amphitrite)
Several paternal half-siblings
Several maternal half-siblings (by Aphrodite)
ConsortHelios
ChildrenActis, Candalus, Cercaphus, Electryone, Macareus, Ochimus, Tenages and Triopas

In Greek mythology, Rhodos/Rhodus (Ancient Greek: Ῥόδος, romanized: Rhódos) or Rhode (Ancient Greek: Ῥόδη, romanized: Rhódē), was the goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes and a wife of the sun god Helios.[1]

  1. ^ Fowler 2013, pp. 14, 591–592; Hard, pp. 43, 105; Grimal, p. 404 "Rhode", pp. 404–405 "Rhodus"; Smith, "Rhode" , "Rhodos"; Pindar, Olympian 7.71–74; Diodorus Siculus, 5.56.3