Hyperion (Titan)

Hyperion
Hyperion
Member of the Titans
Ancient Greek	Ὑπερίων
Battles	Titanomachy
Parents	Uranus and Gaia
Consort	Theia
Offspring	Helios, Eos and Selene

This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.

In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/haɪˈpɪəriən/; Ancient 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.

^ Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Smith, s.v. Hyperion.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Grimal, s.v. Hyperion.

[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.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]