He led his people on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War and later founded the Kingdom of the Latins (Rome).ĪSTYNOOS A prince of Syria (West Asia).

RHODOS or RHODE The goddess of the island of Rhodes and wife of Helios was a daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon.ĪENEAS A prince of Dardania in the Troad (Asia Minor) who was born of Aphrodite and Ankhises. PRIAPOS (Priapus) The god of garden fertility was a son of Aphrodite by Dionysos, Zeus or Adonis. POTHOS The god of sexual longing was a son of Aphrodite. PHOBOS The god of panic was a son of Ares and Aphrodite. (She was usually, however, described as an Okeanis daughter of Okeanos and Tethys). PEITHO The goddess of persuasion and seduction was sometimes said to be a daughter of Aphrodite. IAKKHOS (Iacchus) A god of the Eleusinian Mysteries, often called the Eleusinian Dionysos or Hermes was, according to the Orphic Hymns, a son of Dionysos and Aphrodite. The goddess may have been born pregnant with the pair, giving birth to them as she grew from the sea-foam. HIMEROS The god of desire, twin brother of Eros, was a son of Aphrodite. His form was merged with that of the Naiad Salmakis to form a creature that was half male and half female. HERMAPHRODITOS The Hermaphroditic godling was a son of Hermes and Aphrodite. She was married to the mortal Kadmos, founding King of Thebes. HARMONIA The goddess of harmony (marital and civic) was a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, born of their adulterous union.

(Some say the father was Ares, others that she was born pregnant with the child).ĮROTES The winged godlings of love were sons of Aphrodite. She wed the god Poseidon.ĭEIMOS The god of fear was a son of Ares and Aphrodite.ĮROS The winged boy god of love was a son of Aphrodite and her constant companion. The 'Loves' pages detail those liaisons which were elaborated upon in myth.ĪNTEROS The god of reciprocal (or some say, unrequited) love was a son of Ares and Aphrodite.īEROE The goddess of the city of Beroe (in Lebanon, Asia Minor) was a daughter of Adonis and Aphrodite. This page provides an overview of the family of the goddess including her divine and mortal children and a referenced genealogical list. Zeus had to stop him somehow, so he hit the chariot with a lightning bolt, killing Phaethon and devastating Helios.Venus Aphrodite, Ares and Eros, Greco-Roman fresco from Pompeii C1st A.D., Naples National Archaeological MuseumĪPHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. Phaethon quickly lost control of the reins and began to set the entire earth alight in fire. Helios was also known for allowing his inexperienced son Phaethon to drive the chariot across the sky one day. Zeus agreed to avenge Helios’ cattle by destroying all of Odysseus’ ships and killing all of his men. Helios was so upset he went to Zeus and threatened never to rise from the Underworld again, leaving the earth in eternal darkness. While he slept, his men killed and ate the cattle on the island, while promising to make amends with sacrifices of other cattle once they returned home. When Odysseus went to pray to the gods, he was overcome with drowsiness. However, Odysseus and his men were trapped during a month-long storm on an island, and their stores of food began to run low. Odysseus was warned by the blind prophet Tiresias not to eat the cattle of the sun god, Helios.

Helios had a primary role in the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer. Hecate came to him and asked him if he had seen what happened Helios was the one to reveal to Demeter that Zeus had allowed Hades to have Persephone. He took part in the search for Persephone after her abduction by Hades. He is the brother of Selene (the moon) and Eos (dawn).

Each day, he drove his chariot with four horses across the sky. Helios was the personification of the sun, not the sun god Apollo as some people think.

Helios and aphrodite