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Decoration Description: On the clay-colored edge of the mouth is a band of rays. The insides of the handles are clay-colored. Above the scenes are chains of opposed lotuses and palmettes. Most details of the chain are red and black, while the lotus buds, outlines of the palmette leaves, and dots in the links are white. A red line runs around the vase on the foot profile, others on the neck above the handles, on the neck-mouth join, two above the band of rays, and two below the scenes.
On side A, a charioteer stands on his quadriga, wearing a long chiton decorated with white and red flowers, and a headband. Behind the horse team, three hoplites are moving left. Their helmets are low-crested, and the device on the near hoplite's shield is a white amphora with two red dots on its rim. In front of the team on the far right sits an old man on a stool. He is wearing a chiton and mantle and holding in his right hand an upright, curved staff. Above the horses a bird is flying left, while below them a salamander crawls upwards. Red is used for the mane, forelock, and tail of the near horse, the pupils of the third horse, the chariot wheel, the charioteer's headband, the near hoplite's helmet and shield rim, and the old man's cloak. White is used for the third horse, the breast band of the first horse, the second horse's teeth, dots on the helmet crest of the near hoplite, the other two hoplites' shield rims and helmet crests, and the old man's hair, beard, and chiton.
The scene on side B is similar to that of A. Behind the team, but in front of the charioteer and quadriga is a warrior facing right, putting on his greaves. He is wearing a chiton, chest armor, and a high-crested helmet. On the far right in front of the team is a running man, naked except for a mantle draped over his right forearm and left shoulder. He is moving in the same direction as the others. Above the team two birds fly, one to the right behind the warrior, the other to the left behind the running figure. Red is used for the mane, tail, belly stripe, and marks on the belly and breast band of the first horse, the mane of the third horse, the wheel of the chariot, the charioteer's hair, and the warrior's helmet. White is used for the fourth horse, dots on the upper part of the charioteer's chiton, the warrior's chiton, armor, and helmet crest.
As he rides in his chariot, he shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him. Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvelously drives them down again through heaven to Ocean.
For Helios' tale-telling, Aphrodite would have her revenge on him. She made him fall for a mortal princess named Leucothoe, forgetting his previous lover the Oceanid Clytie for her sake. "And he that betrayed her stolen love was equally betrayed by love. What now avail, O son of Hyperion, thy beauty and brightness and radiant beams? For thou, who dost inflame all lands with thy fires, art thyself inflamed by a strange fire. Thou who shouldst behold all things, dost gaze on Leucothoe alone, and on one maiden dost thou fix those eyes which belong to the whole world. Anon too early dost thou rise in the eastern sky, and anon too late dost thou sink beneath the waves, and through thy long lingering over her dost prolong the short wintry hours. Sometimes thy beams fail utterly, thy heart's darkness passing to thy rays, and darkened thou dost terrify the hearts of men. Nor is it that the moon has come 'twixt thee and earth that thou art dark; 'tis that love of thine alone that makes thy face so wan. Thou delightest in her alone.", writes Ovid. Helios would watch her from above, even making the winter days longer so he could have more time looking at her. Taking the form of her mother Eurynome, Helios entered their palace with no problem and came into the girl's room where he dismissed her servants so he would be left alone with her, using the excuse of wanting to entrust a secret to his "daughter". There he took his real form, revealing himself to the girl.
In another tale, in order to escape from Crete and its king Minos, the Athenian inventor Daedalus and his young son Icarus fashioned themselves wings made of birds' feathers glued together with wax and flew away.[197] According to scholia on Euripides, Icarus, being young and rashful, thought himself greater than Helios, forgetting his wings were only held together by wax. Angered, Helios hurled his blazing rays at him, melting the wax and plunging Icarus into the sea to drown. Later, it was Helios who decreed that said sea would be named after the unfortunate youth, the Icarian Sea.[198][199]
Helios brought Aeëtes to Colchis, his eventual kingdom, on his chariot; in the same ride he transferred Circe to her own abode, Aeaea.[248] At some point Helios warned his son of a prophecy that stated he would suffer treachery from one of his own offspring (which Aeëtes took to mean his daughter Chalciope and her children by Phrixus).[249] Helios also bestowed several gifts on his son, such as a chariot with swift steeds,[250] a golden helmet with four plates,[251] a giant's war armor,[252] and robes and a necklace as a pledge of fatherhood.[253] When his daughter Medea betrays him and flees with Jason after stealing the golden fleece, Aeëtes called upon his father and Zeus to witness their unlawful actions against him and his people.[254]
As father of Aeëtes, Helios was also the grandfather of Medea and would play a significant role in Euripides' rendition of her fate in Corinth. When Medea offers Princess Glauce the poisoned robes and diadem, she says they were gifts to her from Helios.[255] Later, after Medea has caused the deaths of Glauce and Glauce's father King Creon, as well as her own children by Jason, Helios helps her escape Corinth and her impious husband Jason by offering her a chariot pulled by flying dragons.[256] Pseudo-Apollodorus seems to follow this version as well.[257] In Seneca's rendition of the story, a frustrated Medea criticizes the inaction of her grandfather, wondering why he has not darkened the sky at sight of such wickedness, and asks from him his fiery chariot so she can burn Corinth to the ground.[258][259] As the charioteer of the day, he is the all-seeing eye of Zeus; but as a nocturnal sojourner, he becomes associated with the occult, which is what connects him to characters like Medea as her grandfather.[260]
According to Artemidorus' Oneirocritica, the rich dreaming of transforming into a god was an auspicious sign, as long as the transformation had no deficiencies, citing the example of a man who dreamt he was Helios but wore a sun crown of just eleven rays.[46] He wrote that the sun god was also an auspicious sign for the poor.[438] In dreams, Helios could either appear in 'sensible' form (the orb of the sun) or his 'intelligible' form (the humanoid god).[439]
A mosaic found in the Vatican Necropolis (mausoleum M) depicts a figure very similar in style to Sol / Helios, crowned with solar rays and driving a solar chariot. Some scholars have interpreted this as a depiction of Christ, noting that Clement of Alexandria wrote of Christ driving his chariot across the sky.[442] Some scholars doubt the Christian associations,[443] or suggest that the figure is merely a non-religious representation of the sun.[444]
The Papyri often syncretize Helios with a variety of related deities. He is described as "seated on a lotus, decorated with rays", in the manner of Harpocrates, who was often depicted seated on a lotus flower, representing the rising sun. According to the Neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus, "sitting on a lotus implies pre-eminence over the mud, without ever touching the mud, and also displays intellectual and empyrean leadership."[445][14]
Hecatus (/ˈhɛkətəs/; HEK-ə-təs; Ἕκατος, "Hékatos"), "from afar," also Hecatebolus (/hɛkəˈtɛbəʊləs/; hek-ə-TEB-əʊ-ləs; Ἑκατήβολος, "Hekatḗbolos") "the far-shooter", i.e. the sun's rays considered as arrows.[450]
During the time of Callimachus, an ancient Greek poet who lived in the 4th century BC, some people would distinguish between Apollo and Helios, for which thing the poet censured them.[477] Classical Latin poets also used Phoebus as a byname for the Sun-god, whence come common references in later European poetry to Phoebus and his chariot as a metaphor for the Sun but, in particular instances in myth, Apollo and Helios are distinct. The Sun-god, the son of Hyperion, with his Sun chariot, though often called Phoebus ("shining") is not called Apollo except in purposeful non-traditional identifications.[478] Ancient Roman authors who used "Phoebus" for Sol as well as Apollo include Ovid,[479] Virgil,[480] Statius,[481] and Seneca.[482] Representations of Apollo with solar rays around his head in art also belong to the time of the Roman Empire, particularly under Emperor Elagabalus in 218-222 AD.[466]
Although the connection of Helios to Zeus does not seem to have basis in early Greek cult and writings, nevertheless there are many examples of direct identification in later times.[495] The Hellenistic period gave birth to Serapis, a Greco-Egyptian deity conceived by the Greeks as a chthonic aspect of Zeus, whose solar nature is indicated by the Sun crown and rays the Greeks depicted him with.[496] Several Greek deities contributed to Serapis' "godhood" in addition to those two, like Asclepius, Dionysus and Hades; from Zeus and Helios Serapis draws his aspects of sovereignty and sun god.[497] Frequent joint dedications to "Zeus-Serapis-Helios" have been found all over the Mediterranean,[496] for example, the Anastasy papyrus (now housed in the British Museum) equates Helios to not just Zeus and Serapis but also Mithras,[498] and a series of inscriptions from Trachonitis give evidence of the cult of "Zeus the Unconquered Sun".[499] There is evidence of Zeus being worshipped as a solar god in the Aegean island of Amorgos, based on a lacunose inscription Ζεὺς Ἥλ[ιο]ς ("Zeus the Sun"), which, if correct, could mean that Sun elements in Zeus' worship could be as early as the fifth century BC.[500]
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