Heliades

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The Sisters of Phaeton Transformed into Poplars by Santi di Tito (2nd half of 16th century)

In

Oceanid nymph.

Heliades by Rupert Bunny
, 1920s

Names

According to one version recorded by

Neaera.[5] A scholiast on the Odyssey gives their names as Phaethusa, Lampetia and Aegle.[6]

Mythology

Their brother,

Eridanus, in which Phaethon had fallen.[9][10][11]

According to Hyginus, the Heliades were turned to poplar trees because they yoked the chariot for their brother without their father Helios' permission.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ Smith, s.v. Phaethontiades.
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae 154
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  3. ^ Aeschylus, Heliades (play survived only in brief fragments)
  4. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.340
  5. ^ Homer, Odyssey 12.128
  6. ^ Scholia on the Odyssey 17.208
  7. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 5.23.2
  8. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.262 ff
  9. ^ Pliny, Natural History 37.11.2
  10. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.4.1
  11. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.627 ff
  12. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 152A

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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